Based on loosely coupled services in an XML engine, we describe how to realize fine-grained lock protocols, which can guarantee transaction isolation for applications using differ...
Pervasive computing introduces data management requirements that must be tackled in a growingvariety of lightweight computing devices. Personal folders on chip, networks of sensor...
Supply chain decisions are improved with access to global information. However, supply chain partners are frequently hesitant to provide full access to all the information within ...
Operations research and management science are often confronted with sequential decision making problems with large state spaces. Standard methods that are used for solving such c...
Answering queries over an incomplete database w.r.t. a set of constraints is an important computational task with applications in fields as diverse as information integration and ...