Snapshot Isolation is a popular and efficient protocol for concurrency control. In this paper we discuss Snapshot Isolation in view of the classical theory for transaction process...
Interactive Cross-Language Information Retrieval (CLIR), a process in which searcher and system collaborate to find documents that satisfy an information need regardless of the la...
Work in the new millennium requires globally distributed organizational members to collaborate in groups and make decisions. In general, research has shown that groups that use fa...
While many multimedia systems allow the association of semantic annotations with media assets, there is no agreedupon way of sharing these among systems. As an initial step within...
Lynda Hardman, Zeljko Obrenovic, Frank Nack, Brigi...
This paper explores the idea that the universe is a virtual reality created by information processing, and relates this strange idea to the findings of modern physics about the ph...