stractions underlying distributed computing. We attempted to keep our preaims at an abstract and general level. In this column, we make those claims more concrete. More precisely, ...
In a transaction-time temporal object database management system (TODBMS), updating an object creates a new version of the object, but the old version is still accessible. A TODBM...
We take a multivariate view of digital search trees by studying the number of nodes of different types that may coexist in a bucket digital search tree as it grows under an arbitr...
Friedrich Hubalek, Hsien-Kuei Hwang, William Lew, ...
In a distributed real-time database system (DRTDBS), a commit protocol is required to ensure transaction failure atomicity. If data conflicts occur between executing and committin...
Kam-yiu Lam, Chung-Leung Pang, Sang Hyuk Son, Jian...
Today's Internet appliances feature user interface technologies almost unknown a few years ago: touch screens, styli, handwriting and voice recognition, speech synthesis, tin...
Marc Abrams, Constantinos Phanouriou, Alan L. Bato...