— Information Systems are subject to a perpetual evolution, which is particularly pressing in Web Information Systems, due to their distributed and often collaborative nature. Su...
Carlo Curino, Hyun J. Moon, MyungWon Ham, Carlo Za...
Abstract—In distributed environments, access control decisions depend on statements of multiple agents rather than only one central trusted party. However, existing policy langua...
Snapshot isolation (SI) provides significantly improved concurrency over 2PL, allowing reads to be non-blocking. Unfortunately, it can also lead to non-serializable executions in ...
Sudhir Jorwekar, Alan Fekete, Krithi Ramamritham, ...
The bit-sliced index (BSI) was originally defined in [ONQ97]. The current paper introduces the concept of BSI arithmetic. For any two BSI's X and Y on a table T, we show how ...
Denis Rinfret, Patrick E. O'Neil, Elizabeth J. O'N...
This paper describes the design, implementation, and evaluation of a replication scheme to handle Byzantine faults in transaction processing database systems. The scheme compares ...
Ben Vandiver, Hari Balakrishnan, Barbara Liskov, S...