Over the years, the notion of transactions has become synonymous with providing fault-tolerance, reliability and robustness to database systems. However, challenges arise when we ...
Recently, systems providing access to extremely large data collections, managed in a distributed manner, gain emerging attention. A promising approach to implement the physical la...
Group communication primitives have broad utility as building blocks for distributed applications. The challenge is to create and maintain the distributed structures that support ...
Matei Ripeanu, Adriana Iamnitchi, Ian T. Foster, A...
Abstract—This paper describes and evaluates a biologically-inspired network architecture that allows grid services to autonomously adapt to dynamic environment changes in the net...
Convenience, reliability, and effectiveness of automatic memory management have long been established in modern systems and programming languages such as Java. The timeliness req...