Resource reservations in advance are a mature concept for the allocation of various resources, particularly in grid environments. Common grid toolkits such as Globus support advanc...
Modern distributed applications pose increasing demands for high availability, automatic management, and dynamic conguration of their software systems. This paper presents the ar...
—While the polling or request/response paradigm adopted by many network and systems management approaches form the backbone of modern monitoring and management systems, the most ...
This paper evaluates the behavior of a common off-theshelf (COTS) database management system (DBMS) in presence of transient faults. Database applications have traditionally been ...