Strict consistency of replicated data is infeasible or not required by many distributed applications, so current systems often permit stale replication, in which cached copies of ...
Asynchronous systems are being viewed as an increasingly viable alternative to purely synchronous systems. This paper gives an overview of the current state of the art in practica...
This paper explores the use of multi-dimensional trees to provide spatial and temporal e ciencies in imaging large data sets. Each node of the tree contains a model of the data in...
ToolglassTM widgets are new user interface tools that can appear, as though on a transparent sheet of glass, between an application and a traditional cursor. They can be positione...
Eric A. Bier, Maureen C. Stone, Kenneth A. Pier, K...
This paper reports on an implementation of Bayer's Time Interval concurrency control method and compares it to the performance of a conventional timestamp method. The impleme...