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VLDB
2001
ACM
104views Database» more  VLDB 2001»
16 years 8 months ago
Global transaction support for workflow management systems: from formal specification to practical implementation
In this paper, we present an approach to global transactionmanagementinworkflowenvironments.Thetransaction mechanism is based on the well-known notion of compensation, but extended...
Paul W. P. J. Grefen, Jochem Vonk, Peter M. G. Ape...
PERCOM
2005
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Supporting Topographic Queries in a Class of Networked Sensor Systems
Topographic querying is the process of extracting data from a sensor network for understanding the graphic delineation of features of interest in a terrain. Query processing techn...
Mitali Singh, Viktor K. Prasanna
IEEECIT
2006
IEEE
16 years 1 months ago
Dynamic Replica Location Service Supporting Data Grid Systems
Data grid is a kind of wide-area, distributed storage system. It can provide huge storage capacity. There are millions of files in data grid, distributed on hundreds of geographi...
Qiwei Zhang, Jiangming Yang, Ning Gu, Yuwei Zong, ...
SPC
2005
Springer
16 years 1 months ago
Supporting Dynamically Changing Authorizations in Pervasive Communication Systems
In pervasive computing environments, changes in context may trigger changes in an individual’s access permissions. We contend that existing access control frameworks do not provi...
Adam J. Lee, Jodie P. Boyer, Chris Drexelius, Pras...
HICSS
2003
IEEE
142views Biometrics» more  HICSS 2003»
16 years 1 months ago
Evolution of a Knowledge Focused Computer Supported Learning System by Ensuring Extensibility through Generalization and Replica
If sufficient attention is not paid to the information models on which Learning Platforms are based the ability to deliver rich functionality is hindered. This paper describes the...
David White, Lesley A. Gardner, Don Sheridan