Locking and timestamping are two popular approaches to concurrency control in databases systems. Although more than a dozen analytic performance studies of locking techniques have...
Abstract. In order to make multithreaded programming manageable, programmers often follow a design principle where they break the problem into tasks which are then solved asynchron...
Distributed constraint optimization problems (DCOPs) are a popular way of formulating and solving agent-coordination problems. It is often desirable to solve DCOPs optimally with m...
A constraint satisfaction problem (CSP) is a general framework that can formalize various application problems in artificial intelligence. However, practical real-world problems t...
: Collaborative and dynamic workflow management systems in logistic companies require strong information systems and computer support. Business processes in such industries general...