Abstract. Fine-grained lock protocols should allow for highly concurrent transaction processing on XML document trees, which is addressed by the taDOM lock protocol family enabling...
— Emerging network applications tend to be built over heterogeneous network resources spanning multiple management domains. Many such applications have dynamic demands for dedica...
Xi Yang, Tom Lehman, Chris Tracy, Jerry Sobieski, ...
One of the major advantages of component-based software engineering is the ability for developers to reuse and assemble software entities to build complex software. Whereas decompo...
Chouki Tibermacine, Christophe Dony, Salah Sadou, ...
There are numerous applications where there is a need to rapidly infer a story about a given subject from a given set of potentially heterogeneous data sources. In this paper, we f...
Marat Fayzullin, V. S. Subrahmanian, Massimiliano ...
Based on the FOCUS theory of distributed systems (see [Broy, Stølen 01]) that are composed of interacting components we introduce a formal model of services and layered architectu...