Recent research has shown that server-driven protocols for achieving cache consistency in wide-area network services can perform significantly better than traditional consistency ...
Jian Yin, Lorenzo Alvisi, Michael Dahlin, Arun Iye...
Transactional workloads are a hallmark of modern OLTP and Web applications, ranging from electronic commerce and banking to online shopping. Often, the database at the core of the...
David T. McWherter, Bianca Schroeder, Anastassia A...
— Web Services offer great promise for integrating and automating software applications within and between enterprises over the Internet. However, ensuring that Web Services can ...
Louise E. Moser, P. Michael Melliar-Smith, Wenbing...
We present a formal analysis of the Web Services Atomic Transaction (WS-AT) protocol. WS-AT is a part of the WS-Coordination framework and describes an algorithm for reaching agree...
—In this paper we extend our previous work on soft probabilistic contracts for QoS management, from the particular case of “response time”, to general QoS parameters. Our stu...