For improved flexibility and concurrent usage existing transaction management models for Web services relax the isolation property of Web service-based transactions. Correctness o...
Mohammad Alrifai, Wolf-Tilo Balke, Peter Dolog, Wo...
Enterprise applications need to be highly available and scalable. In the past, this has required “stateless” applications, which essentially require the application to manage ...
Abstract. In recent years, protocols have been developed to ensure secure communications over the Internet, e.g., the secure sockets layer (SSL) and secure electronic transaction (...
Database systems serving cloud platforms must serve large numbers of applications (or tenants). In addition to managing tenants with small data footprints, different schemas, and ...
This paper studies the pricing of software development outsourcing. Two pricing techniques – time and material and fixed price – are described and the economic conditions for ...