Embedded systems in safety-critical environments demand safety guarantees while providing many useful services that are too complex to formally verify or fully test. Existing appl...
Stanley Bak, Deepti K. Chivukula, Olugbemiga Adeku...
Systems of autonomous agents providing automated services over the Web are fast becoming a reality. Often these agent systems are constructed using procedural architectures that pr...
We propose a new paradigm for building scalable distributed systems. Our approach does not require dealing with message-passing protocols—a major complication in existing distri...
Marcos Kawazoe Aguilera, Arif Merchant, Mehul A. S...
Validating distributed systems is particularly difficult, since failures may occur due to a correlated occurrence of faults in different parts of the system. This paper describes ...
Michel Cukier, Ramesh Chandra, David Henke, Jessic...
This paper presents HAC, a novel technique for managing the client cache in a distributed, persistent object storage system. HAC is a hybrid between page and object caching that c...
Miguel Castro, Atul Adya, Barbara Liskov, Andrew C...