For very large databases such as those used by banks and airlines, cost considerations may forbid shutting down the service for a long period of time and reorganizing off-line. Si...
Software Transactional Memories (STMs) are emerging as a highly attractive programming model, thanks to their ability to mask concurrency management issues to the overlying applic...
Roberto Palmieri, Francesco Quaglia, Paolo Romano,...
Much interest already exists in the electronics research community for developing and integrating speech technology to a variety of applications, ranging from voice-activated syst...
Transaction-level modelling (TLM) is a poorlyterm, promising a level of abstraction like RTL (register transfer level), where the key feature is a `transaction'. But unlike r...
—Emerging Web2.0 applications such as virtual worlds or social networking websites strongly differ from usual OLTP applications. First, the transactions are encapsulated in an AP...