Abstract. Upgrading the software of long-lived, highly-available distributed systems is difficult. It is not possible to upgrade all the nodes in a system at once, since some nodes...
Abstract. This paper shows that asynchronous fault detection is a practical way to reflect partial failure in a network-transparent distributed programming language. In the network...
Abstract. While XQuery is becoming a standard, the W3C is currently discussing the features of an update language for XML, and its requirements. Therefore, time is ripe for designi...
Abstract. In this paper, we focus on B2B scenarios where XML views are extracted from relational databases and sent over the Web to another application that edits them and sends th...
Abstract. The Semantic Web promises to provide timely, targeted access to user-specified information online. Though standardized services exist for performing this work, specifying...