In this chapter, we discuss a widely used fault-tolerant data replication model called virtual synchrony. The model responds to two kinds of needs. First, there is the practical qu...
Mitchell's notion of representation independence is a particularly useful application of Reynolds' relational parametricity -- two different implementations of an abstra...
Ranking is an important property that needs to be fully supported by current relational query engines. Recently, several rank-join query operators have been proposed based on rank...
Ihab F. Ilyas, Rahul Shah, Walid G. Aref, Jeffrey ...
Web-based environments typically span interactions between humans and software services. The management and automatic calculation of trust are among the key challenges of the futur...
Advances in the creation of computational materials are transforming our thinking about relations between the physical and digital. In this paper we characterize this transformati...