— Many distributed systems may be limited in their performance by the number of transactions they are able to support per unit of time. In order to achieve fault tolerance and to...
Tal Anker, Danny Dolev, G. Greenman, I. Shnaiderma...
In emerging Web2.0 applications such as virtual worlds or social networking websites, the number of users is very important (tens of thousands), hence the amount of data to manage...
A real-time object is one whose state may become invalid with the passage of time. A temporal validity interval is associated with the object state, and the real-time object is te...
The increasing popularity of resource exchange through peerto-peer networks has encouraged the development of ways to support more complex commercial transactions over these netwo...