Constructing shared understanding in interprofessional client sessions

Persistent Client-Server Database Sessions

Database systems support recovery, providing high database availability. However, database applications may lose work because of a server failure. In particular, if a database server crashes, volatile server state associated with a client application’s session is lost and applications may require operator-assisted restart. This prevents masking server failures and degrades application availabil...

Constructing Web Views from Automated Navigation Sessions

Existing web search engines provide users with the ability to query an off-line database of indices in order to decide on an entry point for further manual navigation. Results are often presented as a list of URLs in descending order of relevance, with no information on the underlying topology of the result set. We believe that information on the topology is important for useful exploration and...

Boundary work in inter-agency and interprofessional client transitions.

This article analyses the accomplishment of boundary work performed by professionals engaged in inter-agency collaboration. As a means of building authority within a particular field, boundary work is found to be a common feature of most professional practices. By analysing the talk of Finnish professionals who work in the field of supported housing in mental health, the article investigates th...

Constructing Shared Understanding: The Role of Embodied Metaphors in Organization Development

Automatic and Robust Client-Side Protection for Cookie-Based Sessions

Session cookies constitute one of the main attack targets against client authentication on the Web. To counter that, modern web browsers implement native cookie protection mechanisms based on the Secure and HttpOnly flags. While there is a general understanding about the effectiveness of these defenses, no formal result has so far been proved about the security guarantees they convey. With the ...