When the available information is imperfect, it is often desirable to represent it in the database, so that it can be used to answer queries of interest as much as possible. The da...
This paper describes a new method for providingtransparent fault tolerance for parallel applications on a network of workstations. We have designed our method in the context of sh...
In a distributed system, replication of components, such as objects, is a well known way of achieving availability. For increased availability, crashed and disconnected components...
In a software system, it is inevitable that components will occasionally fail to produce acceptable results and become unavailable to serve its clients. Replication is the techniq...
As the disks typically found in personal computers grow larger, protecting data by replicating it on a collection of “peer” systems rather than on dedicated high performance s...
Dmitry Brodsky, Michael J. Feeley, Norman C. Hutch...