Software Transactional Memories (STMs) are emerging as a highly attractive programming model, thanks to their ability to mask concurrency management issues to the overlying applic...
Roberto Palmieri, Francesco Quaglia, Paolo Romano,...
Multi-core processors have become an integral part of mainstream high performance computer systems. In parallel, exponentially increasing power density and packaging costs have ne...
Nowadays more and more devices of daily life are connected to each other and are integrated into massively distributed networks of embedded devices. These devices range from consu...
Christian Buckl, Stephan Sommer, Andreas Scholz, A...
—Emerging Web2.0 applications such as virtual worlds or social networking websites strongly differ from usual OLTP applications. First, the transactions are encapsulated in an AP...
Like any other database application object database applications are subject to evolution. Evolution is, however, critical in object databases because it is the very characteristic...