Modern storage systems use thousands of inexpensive disks to meet the storage requirement of applications. To enhance the data availability, some form of redundancy is used. For e...
Liping Xiang, Yinlong Xu, John C. S. Lui, Qian Cha...
A fundamental problem in distributed computation is the distributed evaluation of functions. The goal is to determine the value of a function over a set of distributed inputs, in ...
In distributed systems that use active replication to achieve robustness, it is important to efficiently enforce consistency among replicas. The nonblocking mode helps to speed u...
In large organizations the administration of access privileges (such as the assignment of an access right to a user in a particular role) is handled cooperatively through distribu...
Abstract. Today’s software systems are becoming increasingly configurable and designed for deployment on a plethora of architectures, ranging from sequential machines via multic...
Einar Broch Johnsen, Olaf Owe, Rudolf Schlatte, Si...