Architects are faced with the problem of building enterprise scale information systems, with streamlined, automated internal business processes and web-enabled business functions,...
We outline a lightweight architecture to support novel application scenarios for P2P systems. These scenarios include merging and splitting of large networks, or multiplexing rela...
: In this work, we describe the protein secondary structure prediction module of a distributed bio-informatics system. Protein databases contain over a million of sequenced protein...
Abstract. In order to construct and deploy massively multiagent systems, we must address one of the fundamental issues of distributed systems, the possibility of partial failures. ...
Traditional agreement-based Byzantine fault-tolerant (BFT) systems process all requests on all replicas to ensure consistency. In addition to the overhead for BFT protocol and sta...