A very active field of research of Database Management Systems (DBMS) is concerned with an augmentation of DBMS by rules. Passive rules (constraints) were the first to be investig...
Advances in networking and content delivery systems are enabling new challenging provisioning scenarios where a growing number of users access Video on Demand (VoD), possibly whil...
Abstract. Distributed knowledge management systems (DKMS) have been suggested to meet the requirements of today’s knowledge management. Peer-to-peer systems offer technical found...
Marc Ehrig, Christoph Schmitz, Steffen Staab, Juli...
A key challenge in supporting data-driven scientific applications is the storage and management of input and output data in a distributed environment. In this paper, we describe a...
Stephen Langella, Shannon Hastings, Scott Oster, T...
Although it has long been realised that ACID transactions by themselves are not adequate for structuring long-lived applications and much research work has been done on developing...
Iain Houston, Mark C. Little, Ian Robinson, Santos...