Prefetching has been widely used to improve system performance in mobile environments. Since prefetching consumes system resources, such as bandwidth and power, it is important to...
Abstract. We are interested in the development of a database management layer which is completely portable and, therefore, "pluggable" on top of multiple host platforms. ...
Abstract. Fine-grained lock protocols with lock modes and lock granules adjusted to the various XML processing models, allow for highly concurrent transaction processing on XML tre...
Although conventional database management systems are designed to tolerate hardware and to a lesser extent even software errors, they cannot protect themselves against syntactical...
Location based services in mobile environments have been recognized as a challenging problem that calls for new service models and dynamic strategies. The problem becomes even har...