The amount of information available in the MEDLINE database makes it very hard for a researcher to retrieve a reasonable amount of relevant documents using a simple query language ...
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...
Abstract. Version control systems allow a group of people to work together on a set of documents over a network by merging their changes into the same source repository. The existi...
Workflow-centric knowledge distribution mechanisms have been proposed recently by a number of researchers to coordinate the flow of codified knowledge in large organizations. This...
This paper presents a model for describing the synchronization between several media delivered over a network in a Web-based environment. Synchronization concerns the download and...