Abstract—Design applications, e.g., CAD or media production, often require multiple users to work cooperatively on shared data, e.g., XML documents. Using explicit transactions i...
Database programming requires having the knowledge of database semantics both to maintain database integrity and to explore more optimization opportunities. Automated programming ...
Engineeringdesign applications require the support of long transactions in cooperative environments, The problem of the existing copy/update/merge approaches is that thepartial ef...
This paper extends earlier work in the use of ‘Agent-based Computational Economics’ (ACE) for modelling the development of co-operation between firms. Inter-firm relations hav...