Traditional concurrency control techniques for database systems (transaction management based on locking protocols) have been successful in many multiuser settings, but these tech...
Abstract. Clinical research significantly contributes to the better understanding of diseases and their treatment. Physicians, however, could not take fully advantage of the result...
An ontology is a formal representation of a domain modeling the entities in the domain and their relations. When a domain is represented by multiple ontologies, there is a need for...
FUSE is a lightweight failure notification service for building distributed systems. Distributed systems built with FUSE are guaranteed that failure notifications never fail. When...
John Dunagan, Nicholas J. A. Harvey, Michael B. Jo...
It is becoming increasingly common to connect traditional embedded system networks to the Internet for remote monitoring, high-level control and integration. It is necessary to pr...