Abstract With the rapid advances in mobile computing technology, there is an increasing demand for processing realtime transactions in a mobile environment. This paper studies con...
Kam-yiu Lam, Tei-Wei Kuo, Wai-Hung Tsang, Gary C. ...
Complex multimedia queries, aiming to retrieve from large databases those objects that best match the query specification, are usually processed by splitting them into a set of m ...
Ilaria Bartolini, Paolo Ciaccia, Vincent Oria, M. ...
Large-scale data analysis has become increasingly important for many enterprises. Recently, a new distributed computing paradigm, called MapReduce, and its open source implementat...
In this chapter, we discuss a widely used fault-tolerant data replication model called virtual synchrony. The model responds to two kinds of needs. First, there is the practical qu...
In our earlier work we have proposed using the declarative language DecSerFlow for modeling, analysis and enactment of processes in autonomous web services. DecSerFlow uses constra...
Maja Pesic, Dragan Bosnacki, Wil M. P. van der Aal...