In a conventional client-server database system (CSDBS), a transaction and its requisite data have to be colocated at a single site for the operation to proceed. This has traditionally been achieved by moving either the data or the transaction. Today, the availability of powerful workstations and high-bandwidth networking options has led users to expect real-time guarantees about the completion...

The Annual Boole Lecture was established and is sponsored by the Boole Centre for Research in Informatics, the Cork Constraint Computation Centre, the Department of Computer Science, and the School of Mathematics, Applied Mathematics and Statistics at University College Cork. The series is named in honour of George Boole, the first professor of Mathematics at UCC, whose seminal work on logic in...

Runyao Duan,1, 2 Simone Severini,3 and Andreas Winter4, 5 Centre for Quantum Computation and Intelligent Systems (QCIS), Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, University of Technology, Sydney NSW2007, Australia State Key Laboratory of Intelligent Technology and Systems, Tsinghua National Laboratory for Information Science and Technology, Department of Computer Science and Technolog...

ROBERT GHANEA-HERCOCK1,*, E. GELENBE2, NICHOLAS R. JENNINGS3, OLIVER SMITH4, DAVID N. ALLSOPP5, ALEX HEALING1, HAKAN DUMAN1, SIMON SPARKS5, NISHAN C. KARUNATILLAKE3 AND PERUKRISHNEN VYTELINGUM3 Pervasive ICT Research Centre, BT, Ipswich, UK Intelligent Systems and Networks Group, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College, London SW7 2BT, UK School of Electronics and ...

1 Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada 5 2 Centre for Tuberculosis Research, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada 6 3 Institute for Applied Computer Science, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), P.O. Box 3640, 76021 7 Karlsruhe, Germany 8 4 Institute of Microstructure Technology and Institute of Functional Interfaces, Karl...

Francesco Grussu, Torben Schneider, Richard L. Yates, Mohamed Tachrount, Jia Newcombe, Hui Zhang, Daniel C. Alexander, Gabriele C. DeLuca, and Claudia A. M. Wheeler-Kingshott NMR Research Unit, Department of Neuroinflammation, Queen Square MS Centre, UCL Institute of Neurology, London, England, United Kingdom, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, England,...

Lucas G. S. Jeub, Prakash Balachandran, Mason A. Porter, 3 Peter J. Mucha, 5 and Michael W. Mahoney 7 Oxford Centre for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford, OX2 6GG, UK Department of Mathematics & Statistics, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, USA CABDyN Complexity Centre, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX1 1HP, UK Department of Applied Physical Sci...

Contrary to the informed consensus, time travel implies spontaneity (as distinct from chance) so that time travel can only be of the second kind. ∗A preliminary version of this paper was presented at a Seminar on ‘Reality in Physics and Philosophy,’ S. N. Bose National Centre for the Basic Sciences, Calcutta, 24-25 Feb 1996. †Present address: Centre for Computer Science, MCRP University, 222 M....

1Department of Bioengineering and Aerospace Engineering, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Avenida de la Universidad 30, 28911 Leganes, Spain 2Instituto de Investigacion Sanitaria Gregorio Marãnon, Calle de Doctor Esquerdo 46, 28007 Madrid, Spain 3Unité de Neuroimagerie Fonctionnelle, Centre de Recherche de l’Institut Universitaire de Gériatrie de Montréal, Université de Montréal, Montreal, QC,...

The Air Operations Simulation Centre (AOSC) is part of Air Operations Division (AOD) of the DSTO Aeronautical and Maritime Research Laboratory (AMRL), situated at Fishermens Bend in Melbourne. The centre consists of high fidelity visual displays, computer systems driving advanced image generators and various simulation cockpits of Australian Defence Force (ADF) fixed and rotary wing aircraft. T...