Patches to modern operating systems, including bug fixes and security updates, and the reboots and downtime they require, cause tremendous problems for system users and administr...
Andrew Baumann, Jonathan Appavoo, Robert W. Wisnie...
Long-running applications such as network services require continuous uptime but also frequent changes to the software. To avoid downtime for software maintenance, applications mu...
Abstract. We present an extension of an update technique for preconditioners for sequences of non-symmetric linear systems that was proposed in [5]. In addition, we describe an ide...
We address the problem of efficient support for active rules in XML database systems. We describe a general form of active rules for XML based on XQuery and a previously defined...
Current object database management systems support user-defined conversion functions to update the database once the schema has been modified. Two main strategies are possible whe...