In a multidatabase environment with mobile computers involved, the nature of computing is such that the user may not wait for the submitted global transaction to complete before d...
Users have been demanding information “anytime, anywhere”. The notion of accessing diverse and autonomous information repositories with different APIs is not accepted. This ha...
Compensation is the process by which a committed transaction in a database is undone by running the semantic inverse of that transaction on the database. Compensation has been pro...
A multidatabase system (MDBS) is a facility that allows users access to data located in multiple autonomous database management systems (DBMSs). In such a system, globaltransaction...
Yuri Breitbart, Hector Garcia-Molina, Abraham Silb...