Group communication protocols constitute a basic building block for highly dependable distributed applications. Designing and correctly implementing a group communication system (...
Claudio Basile, Long Wang, Zbigniew Kalbarczyk, Ra...
Loops is a text-based computer mediated communication system aimed at small- to medium-sized corporate work groups. We begin by discussing the goals of the system and the rational...
Thomas Erickson, Wendy A. Kellogg, Mark Laff, Jere...
Cooperation in information retrieval contexts can be used to share query results inside groups of individuals with common objectives, provided that all of them are aware of each ot...
We propose a lightweight fault-tolerant multicast and membership service for real-time process groups which may exchange periodic and aperiodic messages. The service supports boun...
Tarek F. Abdelzaher, Anees Shaikh, Farnam Jahanian...
Organizations, families, institutions evolve a shared culture and history. In this work, we describe a system to facilitate conversation and storytelling about this collective pas...