In this paper we present a prototype system for the management of earth science data which is novel in that it takes a DBMS centric view of the the task. Our prototype -- called &...
Multi-level transactions are a variant of open nested transactions in which the subtransactions correspond to operations at different levels of a layered system architecture. The ...
Web Services constitute a set of technologies that many believe will change the web communication landscape within the next few years. They offer standardized and easy communicati...
The main research in the area of image databases addresses the improvement of retrieval quality and the speedup of the query processing. A number of image retrieval systems reache...
The paper reports on ongoing research into the development of a management system to co-ordinate a set of activities of a virtual organisation for the production of chemicals. The...
Panayiotis Periorellis, Christopher J. W. Townson,...