In object-oriented database systems (OODB) with logical OIDs, an OID index (OIDX) is needed to map from OID to the physical location of the object. In a transaction time temporal ...
Network Data Mining identifies emergent networks between myriads of individual data items and utilises special algorithms that aid visualisation of `emergent' patterns and tre...
stractions underlying distributed computing. We attempted to keep our preaims at an abstract and general level. In this column, we make those claims more concrete. More precisely, ...
Abstract--Many shared-memory parallel systems use lockbased synchronization mechanisms to provide mutual exclusion or reader-writer access to memory locations. Software locks are i...
—It is essential to process real-time data service requests such as stock quotes and trade transactions in a timely manner using fresh data, which represent the current real worl...