During the last decade, teams working on information technology (IT) development and implementation projects have experienced significant transformations. Nowadays, many members o...
View integration is a complex, error-prone and time-consuming task. Therefore there is a need to decompose the integration methods into smaller well defined phases where different ...
A composite multimedia object (cmo) is comprised of different media components such as text, video, audio and image, with a variety of constraints that must be adhered to. The con...
The status quo for co-located groupware is to assume that “social protocols” (standards of polite behavior) are sufficient to coordinate the actions of a group of users; howev...
In a recent study, we have shown that in real-time database systems that discard late transactions, optimistic concurrency control outperforms locking. Although the optimistic alg...