Alignment of organisational strategy with Information Systems Strategy (ISS) has become critical as adoption of Information Systems (IS) over the last 50 years has escalated. IS c...
XML (eXtensible Markup Language) is a linear syntax for trees, which has gathered a remarkable amount of interest in industry. The acceptance of XML opens new venues for the appli...
Hybrid systems like computer-controlled chemical plants are typical safety critical distributed systems. In present practice, the safety of hybrid systems is guaranteed by hazard ...
This paper deals with the evaluation of acyclic Boolean conjunctive queries in relational databases. By well-known results of Yannakakis [1981], this problem is solvable in polynom...
A number of solutions have been proposed for the problem of mutual exclusion in distributed systems. Some of these approaches have since been extended to a prioritized environment...