Complex systems experience dramatic changes in behavior and can undergo transitions from functional to dysfunctional states. An unstable system is prone to dysfunctional collective...
Byzantine quorum systems [13] enhance the availability and efficiency of fault-tolerant replicated services when servers may suffer Byzantine failures. An important limitation of...
Lorenzo Alvisi, Evelyn Tumlin Pierce, Dahlia Malkh...
: Information Systems (IS) and technology are used extensively throughout the NHS, and the 1998 national information strategy, "Information for Health", sets out how the ...
We evaluate whether John Holland's Echo model exemplifies his theory of complex adaptive systems. After reviewing Holland's theory of complex adaptive systems and descri...
We describe the design and implementation of a clustering service for a high-performance, shared-disk file system. The service provides failure detection and recovery, reliable e...