This book provides a comprehensive treatment of the rapidly changing world of Web-based business technologies and their often-disruptive innovations. The book describes the most important Web technologies and related business applications, and especially focuses on the business implications of these technologies.
Welcome to the tenth anniversary of the International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering, WISE 2009. This year, the conference continued its tradition, which began in 2000 in Hong Kong and has since traveled globally: 2001 Kyoto, 2002 Singapore, 2003 Rome, 2004 Brisbane, 2005 New York, 2006 Wuhan, 2007 Nancy, and 2008 Auckland. This year, we were pleased to host the event in Poznan, a city of 600,000 in western Poland and the capital of the affluent Wielkopolska province. Poznan has been a significant scientific, cultural, and economic center for over 1,000 years, strategically located on key routes from Paris and Berlin to Warsaw and Moscow, as well as from Scandinavia to the Balkans. The city boasts a vibrant research and university scene, with 140,000 students enrolled in 26 higher education institutions, including the Poznan University of Economics, which has 12,000 students. The WISE 2009 Conference served as a platform for engineers and scientists to showcase their latest research in Web-related technologies and solutions.
Theory, Algorithms, and the Practice of Concurrency Control and Recovery
Focusing on the role of transactional technology in modern economics and science, this comprehensive work addresses critical challenges in transaction processing. It offers insights from leading experts on managing concurrent access by multiple clients, recovering from system failures, and coordinating distributed transactions. The book presents effective techniques essential for practitioners in the field, making it a valuable resource for understanding and navigating the complexities of transactional information systems.