Do the design requirements of a knowledge management system change over time? If so, how do these changes affect the users of the system? In this paper we explore the case of pate...
Traditional concurrency control techniques for database systems (transaction management based on locking protocols) have been successful in many multiuser settings, but these tech...
This paper demonstrates B-Fabric, an all-in-one solution for two major purposes in life sciences. On the one hand, it is a system for the integrated management of experimental dat...
Abstract New application areas or new technical innovations expect from database management systems more and more new functionality. However, adding functions to the DBMS as an int...
We present the framework of a new grid architecture based on the peer-to-peer and the component paradigms. In our architecture, several peer-to-peer components are loosely coupled...