Abstract. Grids reliability remains an order of magnitude below clusters on production infrastructures. This work is aimsed at improving grid application performances by improving ...
Diane Lingrand, Johan Montagnat, Janusz Martyniak,...
We present a Petri net semantics for the Business Process Execution Language for Web Services (BPEL). Our semantics covers the standard behaviour of BPEL as well as the exceptional...
Sebastian Hinz, Karsten Schmidt 0004, Christian St...
A hierarchical modeling framework for the dependability evaluation of Internet-based applications is presented and illustrated on a travel agency example. Modeling is carried out ...
This paper presents an extension of Bayesian networks (BN) applied to reliability analysis. We developed a general methodology for modelling reliability of complex systems based o...
: Weprove tight bounds on the time needed to solve k-set agreement, a natural generalization of consensus. We analyze this problem in a synchronous, message-passing model where pro...
Soma Chaudhuri, Maurice Herlihy, Nancy A. Lynch, M...