An increasing number of mission-critical, embedded, telecommunications, and financial distributed systems are being developed using distributed object computing middleware, such a...
Balachandran Natarajan, Aniruddha S. Gokhale, Shal...
The fair exchange problem is key to trading electronic items in systems of mutually untrusted parties. In modern variants of such systems, each party is equipped with a security mo...
In Internet-scale distributed systems, replicationbased scheme has been widely deployed to increase the availability and efficiency of services. Hence, consistency maintenance amo...
Replicated services accessed via quorums enable each access to be performed at only a subset (quorum) of the servers and achieve consistency across accesses by requiring any two qu...
Grid computing is emerging as a new infrastructure to provide collaborative and secure resource sharing over multiple geographically distributed organizations. In this scenario, r...
Tania Gomes Ramos, Alba Cristina Magalhaes Alves d...