Atomic Commitment Protocol (ACP) is an important part for any distributed transaction. ACPs have been proposed for homogeneous and heterogeneous distributed database management sys...
In a recent paper [8], it was shown how tests for database application systems can be executed efficiently. The challenge was to control the state of the database during testing ...
In this paper, we present a query system that has been implemented in a practical biological database - GPCRDB. Distinguishing features of this system include: smart query relaxat...
A major cost in executing queries in a distributed database system is the data transfer cost incurred in transferring relations (fragments) accessed by a query from different sites...
We argue that a fully object-oriented database management system is a very suitable basis of every modern CASE environment. We describe how the features provided by an OODBMS are e...