Gustavo Alonso
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2003
- Are Quorums an Alternative for Data Replication? Ricardo
Jimenez-Peris, Marta Patino-Martinez, Gustavo Alonso, Bettina
Kemme. ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS), vol. 28, No. 3. September, 2003.
- ASAP: An Adaptive QoS Protocol for Mobile Ad Hoc
Networks J. Xue, P. Stuedi, G. Alonso. Procedings of the 14th
IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio
Communications (PIMRC), Beijing, China, Sep 2003.
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Event based systems as adaptive middleware platforms A.Frei,
A. Popovici, G. Alonso. Workshop on Communication Abstractions for
Distributed Systems. In the 17th Europeean Conference for
Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP'03), Darmstadt, Germany July
2003.
- The
RHESSI Experimental Data Center P. Saint-Hilaire, C. Praun,
E. Stolte, G. Alonso, A. Benz, and T. Gross. Book chapter in "The Reuven Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager (RHESSI) - Mission description and early results". Edited by Robert P. Lin, Brian R. Dennis, and Arnold O. Benz. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003.
- Spontaneous
Container Services A. Popovici, G. Alonso, T. Gross. Proc. of
the 17th Europeean Conference for Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP),
Darmstadt, Germany, July 2003
- A
proactive middleware platform for mobile computing
A. Popovici, A. Frei, G.Alonso. Proc. of the 4th ACM/IFIP/USENIX
International Middleware Conference, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, June 2003
- Scientific
Data Repositories -Designing for a Moving Target E. Stolte,
C. von Praun, G. Alonso, T. Gross. Proceedings of ACM SIGMOD, San
Diego, California, USA, June, 2003.
- Programming
for Dependability in a Service-based Grid W. Bausch,
C. Pautasso, G. Alonso. Proc. of the 3rd IEEE/ACM International
Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid), Tokyo, Japan,
May 2003.
- Probabilistic Protocols for Node Discovery in Ad-hoc, Single
Broadcast Channel Networks G. Alonso, E. Kranakis,
R. Wattenhofer, P. Widmayer. 3rd International Workshop on Wireless,
Mobile and Ad Hoc Networks (WMAN), IPDPS 2003, Nice, France, April, 2003
- Just
in Time Aspects: Efficient Dynamic Weaving for Java
A. Popovici, G. Alonso, T. Gross. Proc. of the 2nd International
Conference on Aspect-Oriented Software Development, Boston, USA, March
2003
- Approximated
Trial and Error Analysis in Scientific Databases E. Stolte,
G. Alonso. Journal of Information Systems, 28(1-2), pp 137-157,
March-April 2003.
- Using Optimistic Atomic Broadcast in Transaction
Processing Systems B. Kemme, F. Pedone, G. Alonso. A. Schiper, M. Wiesmann. IEEE
Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering. Vol. 15, No. 4. July/August 2003.
2002
- Myths around Web services G. Alonso. Bulletin of the Technical Committee on Data Engineering. December 2002, vol. 25. No. 4.
- The
RHESSI Experimental Data Center P. Saint-Hilaire, C. Praun,
E. Stolte, G. Alonso, A. Benz, and T. Gross. Special Issue on the
RHESSI Satellite, Journal of Solar Physics, December 2002
- Ad-hoc
Transactions for Mobile Services A. Popovici,
G. Alonso. Proceedings of the 3rd VLDB Workshop on Technologies for
E-Services, Hong-Kong, August 2002
- BioOpera:
Cluster-aware Computing W. Bausch, C. Pautasso, R. Schaeppi,
G. Alonso. Proceedings of the 4th IEEE International Conference on
Cluster Computing, Chicago, USA, September 2002.
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Efficient Exploration of Large Scientific Databases
E. Stolte, G. Alonso. Proceedings of the 28th International Conference
on Very Large DataBases (VLDB), Hong Kong, China, August 2002.
- Dynamic Weaving for Aspect
Oriented Programming A.Popovici, T. Gross, G. Alonso. 1st International Conference
on Aspect-Oriented Software Development (AOSD), Enschede,
The Netherlands, April 2002.
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Atomicity and Isolation for Transactional Processes. H. Schuldt, G.
Alonso, C. Beeri, H.-J. Schek. ACM Transactions on Database Systems
(TODS), Volume 27, No. 1,
March 2002.
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Optimizing Scientific Databases for Client-Side Proccessing.
E. Stolte, G. Alonso. VIII Conference on Extending Database Technology
(EDBT), Prague, Czech Republic, March 2002.
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StreamCorder: Fast Trial-and-Error Analysis in Scientific Databases
E. Stolte, G. Alonso. ICDE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE),
San Jose, USA, February 25-26, 2002.
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Improving the scalability of fault tolerant database clusters.
Ricardo Jimenez-Peris, Marta Patino-Martinez, Bettina Kemme,
Gustavo Alonso. The 22nd International Conference on
Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS). Vienna, Austria. July 2-5, 2002.
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An Algorithm for Non-Intrusive, Parallel Recovery of Replicated Data and its
Correctness..
Ricardo Jimenez-Peris, Marta Patino-Martinez,
Gustavo Alonso. 21st IEEE Int. Conf. on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS
2002), Oct. 2002, Osaka, Japan.
2001
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Process based E-Services.
A. Lazcano, G. Alonso.
Second International Workshop on Electronic Commerce (WELCOM'01),
Heidelberg, Germany, November 16-17, 2001.
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AOP Support for Mobile Systems.
A. Popovici, G. Alonso, T.Gross.
Workshop on Advanced Separation of Concerns in
Object-Oriented Systems, OOPSLA 2001, Tampa, USA, October 15, 2001.
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Is reliable multicast too expensive?.
Ricardo Jimenez-Peris, Marta Patino-Martinez, Gustavo Alonso.
Proceedings of the 4th CaberNet Workshop.
Pisa, Italy, 9 - 12 October, 2001
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A Low Latency Non-Blocking Commit Protocol .
Ricardo Jimenez-Peris, Marta Patino-Martinez, Gustavo Alonso,
Sergio Arevalo.
15th International Symposium on DIStributed Computing (DISC 2001)
Lisboa, Portugal, October 3-5, 2001.
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How to Select a Replication Protocol According to Scalability,
Availability, and Communication Overhead.
Ricardo Jimenez-Peris, Marta Patino-Martinez, Bettina Kemme,
Gustavo Alonso.
20th Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS 2001), New
Orleans, USA. October 28-31, 2001.
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BioOpera: Grid Computing in Virtual Laboratories.
G. Alonso.
ERCIM News No.45 - April 2001
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Improving the Scalability of Fault-Tolerant Database Clusters.
R. Jimenez-Peris, M. Patino-Martinez, B.Kemme and G. Alonso.
International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks.
Goteborg, Sweden, July 1-4, 2001
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Reducing the Latency of Non-Blocking Commitment using Optimism and
Replication.
R. Jimenez-Peris, M. Patino-Martinez, G. Alonso and S. Arevalo.
International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks.
Goteborg, Sweden, July 1-4, 2001
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Dependable Computing in Virtual Laboratories.
Gustavo Alonso, Win Bausch, Cesare Pautasso, Ari Kahn,
Michael Hallett.
International Conference on Data Engineering,
ICDE 2001: 235-242, Heidelberg, Germany.
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WISE: Process based E-Commerce.
Amaia Lazcano, Heiko Schuldt, Gustavo Alonso, Hans-Jörg
Schek. IEEE Data Engineering Bulletin 24(1): 46-51 (2001)
2000
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Exception Handling in Workflow Management Systems.
C. Hagen, G. Alonso.
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SOFTWARE ENGINEERING, VOL. 26, NO. 9, SEPTEMBER 2000
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Enhancing the Fault Tolerance of Workflow Management Systems.
Gustavo Alonso, Claus Hagen, Divyakant Agrawal,
Amr El Abbadi, and C. Mohan. IEEE Concurrency, Vol. 8, No. 3, July-September 2000
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CheeTah: a Lightweight Transaction Server for Plug-and-Play
Internet Data Management
.
G. Pardon, G. Alonso. 26th International Conference
on Very Large Databases (VLDB2000). Cairo, Egypt. September, 2000.
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Don't be lazy, be consistent: Postgres-R, A new way to implement Database Replication
.
B. Kemme, G. Alonso. 26th International Conference
on Very Large Databases (VLDB2000). Cairo, Egypt. September, 2000.
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Database Replication Techniques: a Three Parameter
Classification.
M. Wiesmann, F. Pedone, A. Schiper, B. Kemme, G. Alonso.
Proceedings of the 19th IEEE Symposium on Reliable
Distributed Systems (SRDS2000), Nürnberg, Germany, October 2000
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Scalable Replication in Database Clusters
.
M. Patiño-Martínez, R. Jiménez-Peris, B. Kemme, G. Alonso.
In: 14th International Symposium
on Distributed Computing (DISC), Toledo, Spain, October 2000.
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The WISE approach to Electronic Commerce
.
A. Lazcano, G. Alonso, H. Schuldt, C. Schuler. International Journal of Computer Systems Science & Engineering
(September, 2000).
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A New Approach to Developing and Implementing Eager Database Replication Protocols
.
B. Kemme, G. Alonso. ACM Transactions on
Database Systems, TODS 25(3): 333-379 (2000)
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Understanding Replication in Databases and Distributed Systems
.
M. Wiesmann, F. Pedone, A. Schiper, B. Kemme, G. Alonso.
In: 20th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems
(ICDCS), Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China, April 2000.
1999
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Transactions in Stack, Fork, and Join Composite
Systems.
G. Alonso, A. Fessler, G. Pardon, and H.-J. Schek.
7th International Conference on Database Theory (ICDT99),
Jerusalem, 10-11 January, 1999.
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Highly Available Process Support Systems:
Implementing Backup Mechanisms. C. Hagen, G. Alonso.
18th IEEE Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS'99),
EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland, October 18-21, 1999.
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Correctness in General Configurations of
Transactional Components,
G. Alonso, A. Fessler, G. Pardon, H.-J. Schek. Proceedings of the 18th ACM
Symposium on Principles of Database Systems (PODS'99), Philadelphia,
USA. May 31 - June 3, 1999.
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Concurrency Control and
Recovery in Transactional Process Management ,
H. Schuldt, G. Alonso, H.-J. Schek. Proceedings of the 18th ACM
Symposium on Principles of Database Systems (PODS'99), Philadelphia,
USA. May 31 - June 3, 1999.
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Processing Transactions over Optimistic Atomic Broadcast Protocols,
B. Kemme, F. Pedone, G. Alonso, A. Schiper. 19th International
Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 99), Austin,
Texas, USA, May/June 1999.
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Beyond the Black Box: Event-based Inter-Process
Communication in Process Support Systems,
C. Hagen, G. Alonso.
19th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS
99), Austin, Texas, USA, May/June, 1999.
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WISE: Business to Business E-Commerce.
G. Alonso, U. Fiedler, C. Hagen, A. Lazcano, H. Schuldt, N. Weiler.
IEEE 9th International Workshop on Research Issues on Data Engineering.
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY FOR VIRTUAL ENTERPRISES
(RIDE-VE'99). Sydney, Australia, March 23-24, 1999.
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Processes in Electronic Commerce,
G. Alonso, C. Hagen, A. Lazcano.
ICDCS Workshop on Electronic Commerce and Web-Based Applications (ICDCS
99), Austin, Texas, USA, May/June, 1999.
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Transactional Coordination Agents for Composite
Systems.
H. Schuldt, H.J. Schek, G. Alonso.
Proceedings of the International Database Engineering and Applications
Symposium (IDEAS'99). Montreal, Canada, August 1999.
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Transactions, Messages and Events: Merging Group Communication and Database Systems
B. Kemme, G.Alonso. Third ERSADS European Research Seminar
on Advances in Distributed Systems, Madeira Island, Portugal, April 1999.
- WISE: An Infrastructure for E-Commerce.
G. Alonso, U. Fiedler, A. Lazcano, H. Schuldt, C. Schuler, N. Weiler:
Proceedings of the Informatik'99 Workshop "Enterprise-wide and
Cross-enterprise Workflow Management: Concepts, Systems, Applications".
Paderborn, Germany, October 6, 1999.
- Workflows over Workflows: Practical Experiences with the
Integration of SAP R/3 Business Workflows in WISE.
C. Schuler, H. Schuldt, G. Alonso, H.-J. Schek.
Proceedings of the Informatik'99 Workshop "Enterprise-wide and
Cross-enterprise Workflow Management: Concepts, Systems, Applications".
Paderborn, Germany, October 6, 1999.
1998
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A Suite of Database Replication Protocols based on Group
Communication Primitives.
B. Kemme and G. Alonso.
18th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS
98), Amsterdam, The Netherlands, May 1998.
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Flexible Exception Handling in the OPERA Process Support System,
C. Hagen, G. Alonso.
18th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS
98), Amsterdam, The Netherlands, May, 1998.
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Processes + Transactions = Distributed Applications,
G. Alonso.
Proceedings of the High Performance Transaction Processing (HPTS) Workshop
at Asilomar, California, September 14-17th, 1997. Also in
MiddlewareSpectra, vol. 11, no. 4, Spectrum Reports Inc./Ltd. and
Financial MiddlewareSpectra, vol. 11, no. 4., Spectrum Reports Inc./Ltd
(www.middlewarespectra.com).
1997
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Distributed Client Caching for Multimedia Data ,
D. Ma and G. Alonso.
Proc. of the 3rd Int. Workshop on Multimedia Information Systems (MIS97).
Como, Italy, September, 1997.
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Client-Caching Algorithms in a Video-on-Demand System,
D. Ma and G. Alonso.
Technical report, Esprit Project Hermes (no. 9141), Institute of Information
Systems, ETH Zurich, April, 1997.
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WFMS: The Next Generation of Distributed
Processing Tools,
G. Alonso, C. Mohan.
In "Advanced Transaction Models and Architectures", S. Jajodia and L.
Kerschberg (Eds.), Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1997, pp. 35--62.
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Distributed Processing over
Stand-alone Systems and Applications,
G. Alonso, C. Hagen, H.-J. Schek, M. Tresch.
Proceedings of the 23rd Int. Conf. on Very
Large Data Bases (VLDB'97), Athens, Greece, Aug. 26-29, 1997
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Towards a Platform for Distributed Application Development,
G. Alonso, C. Hagen, H.-J. Schek, M. Tresch.
1997 NATO Advance Studies Institute (ASI).
A. Dogac, L. Kalinichenko, T. Ozsu, A. Sheth (editors).
August 12 -21, 1997, Istanbul, Turkey.
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Exploiting Atomic Broadcast in Replicated Databases,
D. Agrawal, G. Alonso, A. El Abbadi, I. Stanoi.
Proceedings of Euro-Par'97. Passau, Germany, August, 1997.
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Workflow Concepts for Spatial Processes,
G Alonso, Claus Hagen.
Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Spatial Databases
(SSD'97). Berlin, Germany, July 1997
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Correctness and Parallelism of Composite Systems,
G. Alonso, S. Blott, A. Fessler, H.-J. Schek. Proceedings of the 16th ACM
Symposium on Principles of Database Systems (PODS'97), Tucson,
Arizona, USA. May 12-15, 1997.
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Partial Database Replication and Group Communication
Primitives,
G. Alonso. Proceedings of the 2nd European Research Seminar on Advances
in Distributed Systems (ERSADS'97), Zinal (Valais, Switzerland) -
March 17-21, 1997.
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Distributed Data Management in Workflow Environments,
G Alonso,
B. Reinwald,
C. Mohan.
Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Research Issues in Data
Engineering (RIDE'97). Birmingham, U.K. April, 7-8, 1997
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Functionality and Limitations of Current Workflow Management
Systems, G Alonso,
D. Agrawal,
A. El Abbadi,
C. Mohan.
1996
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Process Synchronization in Workflow Management
Systems , G. Alonso,
D. Agrawal,
A. El Abbadi.
8th IEEE Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing (SPDS'97).
New Orleans, Louisiana - October 23-26, 1996.
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The role of database technology in workflow management. ,
G. Alonso.
Proc. of the 1st Int. Conf. on Cooperative Information Systems.
Brussels, Belgium, June 19-21, 1996.
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Research Issues in Large Workflow Management Systems ,
G. Alonso,
H.J. Schek.
Proc. of the NSF Workshop on Workflow and Process Automation in
Information Systems.
Athens, Georgia, USA, May 1996.
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Database Technology in Workflow Environments ,
G. Alonso,
H.J. Schek.
Informatik/Informatique, Zeitschrift der schweiz. Informatikorganisationen
(Journal of the Swiss Computer Society), 1996
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Exotica/FMDC: A Workflow Management System for Mobile and
Disconnected Clients , G. Alonso,
R. Günthör,
M. Kamath,
D. Agrawal,
A. El Abbadi,
C. Mohan.
Journal of Distributed
and Parallel Databases. Volume 4, Number 3, July 1996.
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Advanced Transaction Models in Workflow Contexts
G. Alonso,
D. Agrawal,
A. El Abbadi,
M. Kamath,
R. Günthör,
C. Mohan. In
Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Data Engineering, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Feb. 26 - March 1, 1996
1995
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Providing High Availability in Very Large Worklflow Management
Systems,
M. Kamath,
G. Alonso,
R. Günthör,
C. Mohan.
In Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Extending Database
Technology (EDBT'96), Avignon, France, March 25-29, 1996.
Also available as IBM Research Report RJ9967, IBM Almaden
Research Center, July 1995.
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An Overview of the Exotica Research Project on Workflow
Management Systems,
C. Mohan,
G. Alonso,
R. Günthör,
M. Kamath,
B. Reinwald. In Proc. 6th International Workshop on High Performance
Transaction Systems, Asilomar Conference Center
Pacific Grove, California, September 17-20, 1995.
- Exotica/FMQM: A Persistent Message-Based Architecture for
Distributed Workflow Management,G. Alonso,
D. Agrawal,
A. El Abbadi,
C. Mohan,
R. Günthör,
M. Kamath,.
In Proceedings of the IFIP WG8.1 Working Conference on
Information Systems for Decentralized Organizations, Trondheim,
August 1995. Also available as IBM Research Report RJ9912, IBM Almaden Research Center, November 1994.
- Computational Modeling Systems,
T.R. Smith, J. Su, A. El Abbadi, D. Agrawal, G. Alonso, and A. Saran.
Information Systems, 20(2), 1995.
- Exotica/FMDC: Handling Disconnected Clients in a Workflow
Management System,
G. Alonso,
R. Günthör,
M. Kamath,
D. Agrawal,
A. El Abbadi,
C. Mohan.
Proc. 3rd International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems, Vienna, May 1995.
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Exotica: A Research Perspective on Workflow Management
Systems,
C. Mohan,
G. Alonso,
R. Günthör,
M. Kamath.
IEEE Data Engineering Bulletin, Vol. 18, No. 1, pp19-26, March, 1995.
- Exotica: A Project on Advanced Transaction Management and Workflow
Systems, C. Mohan,
D. Agrawal,
G. Alonso,
A. El Abbadi,
R. Günthör,
M. Kamath.
ACM SIGOIS Bulletin, Vol. 16, No. 1, pp45-50, August, 1995.
- Partitioned Data Objects in Distributed Databases,
G. Alonso,
A. El Abbadi.
International Journal of Distributed and Parallel Databases, no. 3, 1995.
Pages 5-35.
1994
- Management of Distributed Database Constraints, G.
Alonso, A. El Abbadi. IEEE Data
Engineering Bulletin, June, 1994. Pages 18-22.
- Cooperative Modeling in Applied Geographic Research,
G. Alonso, A. El Abbadi. International Journal of
Intelligent and Cooperative Information Systems, May 1994.
- Reducing Recovery Constraints on Locking Based Protocols,
G.Alonso, D. Agrawal and
A. El Abbadi.
Proceedings of the 1994 ACM Symposium on
Principles of Database Systems (PODS'94), Minneapolis, Minnesota, May
1994. Pages 129-138.
- Cooperative Modeling in Applied Geographic Research
(Extended Abstract), G.Alonso, A. El Abbadi.
Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Cooperative
Information Systems (CoopIS-94), Toronto, Canada, May 1994.
- Unifying Concurrency Control and Recovery of Transactions,
G. Alonso, R. Vingralek,
D. Agrawal, Y. Breitbart,
A. El Abbadi,
H.J. Shek and G. Weikum. Information Systems, March
1994. Pages 101-115.
- A Unified Approach to Concurrency Control and Transaction
Recovery, G. Alonso, R. Vingralek,
D. Agrawal, Y. Breitbart, A. El
Abbadi, H.J. Shek and G. Weikum. Proceedings of the 1994
International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT),
Cambridge, United Kingdom, March 1994. Pages 123-130.
- Modeling and Data Management in Geographic Systems,
G. Alonso and A. El Abbadi,
Proceedings of the Eighth Annual Symposium on Geographic
Information Systems, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Feb 1994.
Pages 325-331.
1993
- GOOSE: Geographic Object Oriented Support Environment,
G. Alonso and A. El Abbadi,
Proceedings of the ACM workshop on Advances in Geographic Information
Systems, Arlington, Virginia, Nov. 1993. Pages 38-49.