The typical workload in a database system consists of a mixture of multiple queries of different types, running concurrently and interacting with each other. Hence, optimizing per...
Distributed cooperative engineering applications require consistent and long-term sharing of large volumes of data, which may cause conflicts due to concurrent read/write operatio...
Multiplayer online games have become very popular in recent years. However, they generally suffer from network latency problem. If a player changes its states, it will take some ...
Frederick W. B. Li, Lewis W. F. Li, Rynson W. H. L...
Data consistency in transactional federations is a key requirement of advanced E-service applications on the Internet, such as electronic auctions or real-estate purchase. Federat...
Replicating data over a cluster of workstations is a powerful tool to increase performance, and provide faulttolerance for demanding database applications. The big challenge in su...