In this paper, we study the inconsistency problem in data broadcast. While data items in a mobile computing system are being broadcast, update transactions may install new values ...
Persistent programming languages manage volatile memory as a cache for stable storage, imposing a read barrier on operations that access the cache, and a write barrier on updates ...
Antony L. Hosking, Nathaniel Nystrom, Quintin I. C...
Recently, progress indicators have been proposed for SQL queries in RDBMSs. All previously proposed progress indicators consider each query in isolation, ignoring the impact simult...
Abstract A web programmer often conceives its application as a sequential entity, thus neglecting the parallel nature of the underlying execution environment. In this environment, ...
Agents can benefit from contracting some of their tasks that cannot be performedby themselves or that can be performed moreefficiently by other agents. Developing an agent's ...