This paper describes an efficient optimistic concurrency control scheme for use in distributed database systems in which objects are cached and manipulated at client machines whil...
Atul Adya, Robert Gruber, Barbara Liskov, Umesh Ma...
Data-centric synchronization groups fields of objects into atomic sets to indicate they must be updated atomically. Each atomic set has associated units of work, code fragments th...
Mandana Vaziri, Frank Tip, Julian Dolby, Christian...
We propose a formal real-time semantics for UML statecharts aimed at the requirements level. A requirements-level model assumes perfect technology and has a considerably simpler se...
Abstract: Transactions and recoverable memories are powerful mechanisms for handling failures and manipulating persistent data. Unfortunately, standard recoverable memories incur a...
The global growth in popularity of the World Wide Web has been enabled in part by the availability of browser based search tools which in turn have led to an increased demand for ...
Yi-Ming Chung, William M. Pottenger, Bruce R. Scha...