This paper provides a formal foundation for distributed workfiow executions. The state chart formalism is adapted to the needs of a workflow model in order to establish a basis for...
Abstract. The correctness of nested transactions for multidatabases differs from that of at transactions in that, for nested transactions the execution order of siblings at each re...
Ugur Halici, Ismailcem Budak Arpinar, Asuman Dogac
The paper introduces a model of the Web as an in nite, semistructured set of objects. We reconsider the classical notions of genericity and computability of queries in this new con...
We consider spatial databases and queries definable using first-order logic and real polynomial inequalities. We are interested in topological queries: queries whose result only ...
We develop a new schema for unstructured data. Traditional schemas resemble the type systems of programming languages. For unstructured data, however, the underlying type may be mu...
Peter Buneman, Susan B. Davidson, Mary F. Fernande...