In many recent object recognition systems, feature extraction stages are generally
composed of a filter bank, a non-linear transformation, and some sort of feature pooling …

This article discusses the challenges for Database Management in the Internet of Things.
We provide scenarios to illustrate the new world that will be produced by the Internet of …

The max-flow min-cut theorem of Ford and Fulkerson is based on an even more
foundational result, namely Menger's theorem on graph connectivity Menger's theorem …

Business to business integration has recently been performed by employing Web service
environments. Moreover, such environments are being provided by major players on the …

Business processes involve dynamic compositions of interleaved tasks. Therefore, ensuring
reliable transactional processing of Web services is crucial for the success of Web service …

As embedded systems continue to face increasingly higher performance requirements,
deeply pipelined processor architectures are being employed to meet desired system …

Web Service (WS) composition consists in combining several WSs into a Composite WS
(CWS), which becomes a value-added process. In order to provide reliable and fault-tolerant …

Business transactions in Web service environments run with relaxed isolation and atomicity
property. In such environments, transactions can commit and roll back independently on …

To ensure the relaxed atomicity of transactional composite service (TCS), a lot of relaxed
atomicity models have been proposed, but they don't handle the concurrency control …

In this chapter we describe a design of compensations using forward recovery within Web
service transactions. We introduce an approach to model compensation capabilities and …