Replicated services accessed via quorums enable each access to be performed at only a subset (quorum) of the servers and achieve consistency across accesses by requiring any two qu...
The popular models for repairable item inventory, both in the literature as well as practical applications, assume that the demands for items are independent of the number of work...
Hoong Chuin Lau, Huawei Song, Chuen Teck See, Siew...
Workflow management systems (WFMSs) that are geared for the orchestration of enterprise-wide or even "virtual-enterprise"-style business processes across multiple organi...
Availability in Process Support Systems (PSS) can be achieved by using standby mechanisms that allow a backup server to take over in case a primary server fails. These mechanisms,...
The paper addresses the problem of the construction and management of highly available services in large, open distributed systems. A novel replication protocol is proposed to sat...