Transaction processing systems are judged by users to be correctly functioning not only if their transactions are executed correctly, but also if most of them are completed within...
In this work we present a protocol ensuring the eTransaction guarantee (i.e. a recently proposed end-to-end reliability guarantee) in a Web based, three-tier transactional system....
— This paper focuses on the design process of web prefetching algorithms. The main goal of prefetching techniques in web is to reduce user perceived latency. Since these techniqu...
XML database functionality has been emerging in "XML-only" databases as well as in the major relational database products. Yet, there is no industry standard XML databas...
—Preventive maintenance of operational software systems, a novel technique for software fault tolerance, is used specifically to counteract the phenomenon of software “aging.â€...