The rapid growth of service coordination languages creates a need for methodological support for coordination design. Coordination design differs from workflow design because a ...
— The success of a P2P file-sharing network highly depends on the scalability and versatility of its search mechanism. Two particularly desirable search features are scope (abil...
In this paper, we present methods for supporting autonomous updates in replicated databases. Autonomous updates are of particular importance to applications that cannot tolerate t...
Stefano Ceri, Maurice A. W. Houtsma, Arthur M. Kel...
—We introduce a class of planar arcs and curves, called tame arcs, which is general enough to describe (parts of) the boundaries of planar real objects. A tame arc can have smoot...
Separation of concerns is one of the overarching goals of exception handling in order to keep separate normal and exceptional behaviour of a software system. In the context of a s...
Ivo Augusto Bertoncello, Marcelo Oliveira Dias, Pa...