The one issue that unites almost all approaches to distributed computing is the need to know whether certain components in the system have failed or are otherwise unavailable. Whe...
This paper considers central issues of distributed computing in a mobile environment. Its aim is to light on the first brick of a common view for mobile systems. We pool together...
— Many distributed systems may be limited in their performance by the number of transactions they are able to support per unit of time. In order to achieve fault tolerance and to...
Tal Anker, Danny Dolev, G. Greenman, I. Shnaiderma...
In a component-based system components are basic computation units implementing specific business functions, and their interactions are explicitly represented by connectors. If th...
Hydra is a computer hardware description language that integrates several kinds of software tool (simulation, netlist generation and timing analysis) within a single circuit speci...