Wide-area distribution raises significant performance problems for traditional query processing techniques as data access becomes less predictable due to link congestion, load imb...
An organization makes a new release as new information become available, releases a tailored view for each data request, releases sensitive information and identifying information...
Today’s module systems do not effectively support information hiding in the presence of shared mutable objects, causing serious problems in the development and evolution of larg...
Some security concerns are sensitive to flow of information in a program execution. The dataflow pointcut has been proposed by Masuhara and Kawauchi in order to easily implement s...
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...