Software systems are becoming more open, distributed, pervasive, and connected. In such systems, the relationships between loosely-coupled application elements become non-determini...
Abstract. Database modeling is based on the assumption of a high regularity of its application areas, an assumption which applies to both the structure of data and the behavior of ...
Hans-Werner Sehring, Sebastian Bossung, Joachim W....
Object database management systems (ODBMSs) typically offer fixed approaches to evolve the schema of the database and adapt existing instances accordingly. Applications, however, h...
Open Distributed Systems are the dominating intellectual issue of the end of this century. Figuring out how to build those systems will become a central issue in distributed system...
ABSTRACT. Cost-effective reconfiguration in ODBMSs is difficult to achieve due to the tradeoff between modularity and efficiency. Existing ODBMS designs offer limited reconfigurabi...