Workflow management systems (WFMS) that are geared for the orchestration of business processes across multiple organizations are complex distributed systems: they consist of multi...
—The sustained push for performance, transistor count, and instruction level parallelism has reached a point where chip level power density issues are at the forefront of design ...
Abstract— Group communication services have been successfully used to construct applications with high availability, dependability, and real-time responsiveness requirements. Flo...
Mirroring is often used to enhance the reliability of disk systems, but it is usually considered expensive because it duplicates storage cost and increases the cost of writes. Tra...
Christos A. Polyzois, Anupam Bhide, Daniel M. Dias
We report on initial experiments in tree locking schemes for compiled database applications. Such applications have a repository style of architecture in which a collection of sof...