Abstract: The work described in this article arises from two needs. First, there is still a need for providing more sophisticated database systems than just relational ones. Second...
Markus Kirchberg, Klaus-Dieter Schewe, Alexei Tret...
Systems of autonomous agents providing automated services over the Web are fast becoming a reality. Often these agent systems are constructed using procedural architectures that pr...
Transactional Memory is a concurrent programming API in which concurrent threads synchronize via transactions (instead of locks). Although this model has mostly been studied in the...
The increasing popularity of resource exchange through peerto-peer networks has encouraged the development of ways to support more complex commercial transactions over these netwo...
Agent technology is often claimed to be the most natural approach for automating e-commerce business processes. Despite these claims, up till now, the most successful e-commerce sy...
Costin Badica, Maria Ganzha, Marcin Paprzycki, Ama...