Orphan requests are a significant problem for multi-tier distributed systems since they adversely impact system correctness by violating the exactly-once semantics of application...
Ficus is a replicated general ling environment for Unix intended to scale to very large nationwide networks. The system employs an optimistic one copy availability" model in ...
Gerald J. Popek, Richard G. Guy, Thomas W. Page Jr...
Distributed storage systems provide data availability by means of redundancy. To assure a given level of availability in case of node failures, new redundant fragments need to be ...
Alessandro Duminuco, Ernst Biersack, Taoufik En-Na...
Runtime monitoring is key to the effective management of enterprise and high performance applications. To deal with the complex behaviors of today’s multi-tier applications runn...
Generally, applications employing Database Management Systems (DBMS) require that the integrity of the data stored in the database be preserved during normal operation as well as ...