Replication is one of the prominent approaches for obtaining fault tolerance. Implementing replication on commodity hardware and in a transparent fashion, i.e., without changing t...
In this paper, we present and evaluate alternative techniques to effect the use of location-independent identifiers in distributed database systems. Location-independent identi...
Web application workloads are often characterized by a large number of unique read requests and a significant fraction of write requests. Hosting these applications drives the ne...
Obtaining good performance from a distributed replicated database that allows update transactions to originate at any site while ensuring one-copy serializability is a challenge. ...
In this paper we study decidability of several extensions of P/T nets with name creation and/or replication. In particular, we study how to restrict the models of RN systems (P/T n...