The Web Service Resource Framework (WSRF) was announced in January 2004 as a new way for manipulating "stateful resources" to perform grid computing tasks using Web Serv...
Most application level fault tolerance schemes in literature are non-adaptive in the sense that the fault tolerance schemes incorporated in applications are usually designed witho...
Zizhong Chen, Ming Yang, Guillermo A. Francia III,...
Clusters are now composed of non-uniform nodes with different CPUs, disks or network cards so that customers can adapt the cluster configuration to the changing technologies and t...
Tobias Mayr, Philippe Bonnet, Johannes Gehrke, Pra...
In this paper, we present Spade - the System S declarative stream processing engine. System S is a large-scale, distributed data stream processing middleware under development at ...
We examine the task of concurrently computing alternative solutions to a problem. We restrict our interest to the case where only one of the solutions is needed; in this case we n...