In this paper, we present an approach to global transactionmanagementinworkflowenvironments.Thetransaction mechanism is based on the well-known notion of compensation, but extended...
Paul W. P. J. Grefen, Jochem Vonk, Peter M. G. Ape...
Abstract The protection of customer privacy is a fundamental issue in today's corporate marketing strategies. Not surprisingly, many research efforts have proposed new privacy...
Abstract The top-k dominating query returns k data objects which dominate the highest number of objects in a dataset. This query is an important tool for decision support since it ...
Scientific data in the life sciences is distributed over various independent multi-format databases and is constantly expanding. We discuss a scenario where a life science research...
Abstract. The retrieval of objects from a multimedia database employs a measure which defines a similarity score for every pair of objects. The measure should effectively follow th...