With the Internet changing from era Web1.0 of computers’ interaction to era Web2.0 of users’ interaction, the development of transactional community has become the key solution to combine economic value with social value in social commerce. Transactional community is different from traditional social community in its relationship establishment because of the unique motivations of their members....

Overview: The timely commercialization of research and technologies requires efficient partnership processes. Yet transactions commonly drag on. Speed is particularly important for biomedical given their historically long developmental timelines; until now, there has been no systematic analysis factors influencing innovation-focused transaction timelines. Here we assess how a host affect the ti...

This paper argues that caching, atomicity and layering are fundamental to persistent systems, and that the transactional object cache architecture, as an embodiment of these concerns, provides a foundation for high performance persistent system construction. Central to the paper is a description of the semantics of an abstract transactional object cache architecture that supports a wide range o...

Transactions are contracts that guarantee a consistent, transparent, individual system state transition and their use is widespread in many different kinds of computing systems. Some well known standards (e.g. CORBA) include the specification of services that provide transactional properties. In this paper, we present a formal method for the systematic synthesis of transactional middleware base...

The transactional workkows (TWF) model can be regarded as a merging point of extended transaction models and general workkow model, it emphasizes both transactional aspect and business process aspect. In this report, we present a hierarchical approach for representing transactional workkows and discuss both transactional and business process aspects that a TWF should capture. We also introduce ...