In this work we present a protocol ensuring the eTransaction guarantee (i.e. a recently proposed end-to-end reliability guarantee) in a Web based, three-tier transactional system....
System administrators of today’s high performance computing systems are generally responsible for managing the large amounts of data traffic and archival querying that mass stor...
For most Web-based applications, contents are created dynamically based on the current state of a business, such as product prices and inventory, stored in database systems. These...
A large number of user requests execute (often concurrently) within a server system. A single request may exhibit fluctuating hardware characteristics (such as instruction comple...
Abstract. Just as cooperation in multi-agent systems is a central issue for solving complex tasks, so too is the ability for an intelligent agent to reason about combined knowledge...