This paper is on the Consensus problem, in the context of asynchronous distributed systems made of n processes, at most f of them may crash. A family of failure detector classes s...
Data from several projects show a significant relationship between the size of a module and its defect density. Here we address implications of this observation. Does the overall ...
Parallel programmers typically assume that all resources required for a program’s execution are dedicated to that purpose. However, in local and wide area networks, contention f...
Alain J. Roy, Ian T. Foster, William Gropp, Nichol...
Constraint-based languages can express in a concise way the complex logic of a new generation of interactive services for applications such as banking or stock trading, that must ...
This paper examines the feasibility of performing architectural studies with trace sampling for a suite of desktop application traces on Windows NT. This paper makes three contrib...