Distributed systems are inherently complex, and therefore difficult to design and develop. Experience shows that new technologies—such as components, aspects, and application f...
Management of large-scale parallel and distributed applications is an extremely complex task due to factors such as centralized management architectures, lack of coordination and ...
Switch-based interconnects are used in a number of application domains including parallel system interconnects, local area networks, and wide area networks. However, very few swit...
Rajeev Sivaram, Craig B. Stunkel, Dhabaleswar K. P...
Linearizability is the strongest known consistency property of shared objects. In asynchronous message passing systems, Linearizability can be achieved with 3S and a majority of c...
Marco Serafini, Dan Dobre, Matthias Majuntke, P&ea...
This paper formalizes the semantics of trust and studies the transitivity of trust. On the Web, people and software agents have to interact with “strangers”. This makes trust ...