Disk subsystems span the range of configuration complexity from single disk drives to large installations of disk arrays. They can be directly attached to individual computer syst...
This paper extends earlier work in the use of ‘Agent-based Computational Economics’ (ACE) for modelling the development of co-operation between firms. Inter-firm relations hav...
This paper introduces a mechanism for establishing policies for electronic commerce in a uni ed and secure manner. A commercial policy can be viewed as the embodiment of a contrac...
A warehouse is a data repository containing integrated information for e cient querying and analysis. Maintaining the consistency of warehouse data is challenging, especially if t...
This paper develops some control structures suitable for composing fault-tolerant distrib uted applications using atomic actions (atomic transactions) as building blocks, and then...