In this paper we present a concurrency control algorithm that allows co-existence of soft real-time, relational database transactions, and hard real-time database pointer transact...
Abstract. Resource constrained systems often are programmed using an eventbased model. Many applications do not lend themselves well to an event-based approach, but preemptive mult...
Activity spaces are usually task-specific and only common to a group of people who work together in a certain application domain. It is desirable to enable users to define and mod...
Previous studies have demonstrated the importance of providing users with a coherent environment across distant sites. To date, it remains unclear how such an environment affects ...
Management of virtual machines (VMs) on a large scale remains a significant challenge today. We lack general and vendor-independent quantitative criteria/metrics by which to desc...