A transaction defines a locus of computation that satisfies important concurrency and failure properties; these so-called ACID properties provide strong serialization guarantees ...
Jan Vitek, Suresh Jagannathan, Adam Welc, Antony L...
Abstract. One of the most difficult problems in multiagent systems involves representing knowledge and beliefs of agents in dynamic environments. New perceptions modify an agent’...
This paper describes the ADO.NET Entity Framework, a platform for programming against data that raises the level of ion from the logical (relational) level to the conceptual (enti...
The requirements for Web applications concerning workflow execution, interaction, aesthetics, federation and Web service integration are steadily increasing. Considering their comp...
Patrick Freudenstein, Jan Buck, Martin Nussbaumer,...
This paper presents an XML-based approach to implementing the parametric model of temporal databases. In the parametric model, attribute values are functions of time and the entir...