SIGACT
2010
13 years 6 months ago
2010
Reconfiguration means changing the set of processes executing a distributed system. We explain several methods for reconfiguring a system implemented using the state-machine appro...
JCIT
2010
13 years 6 months ago
2010
A dynamic time delay model for load balancing was proposed in distributed heterogeneous system by Hayat. But how to compute the load-transfer delay and the gain coefficient were n...
FGCS
2011
13 years 6 months ago
2011
From the World Wide Web to supply chains and scientific simulations, distributed systems are a widely used and important approach to building computational systems. Tracking prov...
SICHERHEIT
2010
13 years 9 months ago
2010
: This paper presents a fuzzy set based decision support model for taking uncertainty into account when making security investment decisions for distributed systems. The proposed m...
SIGOPS
2010
13 years 9 months ago
2010
Dependencies among system components are crucial to locating root errors in a distributed system. In this paper, we propose an approach to mine intercomponent dependencies from un...
FGCS
2010
13 years 10 months ago
2010
In a distributed system where scalability is an issue, like in a GRID [5], the problem of enforcing mutual exclusion often arises in a soft form: the infrequent failure of the mut...
TPDS
1998
13 years 11 months ago
1998
—We suggest a method of controlling the access to a secure database via quorum systems. A quorum system is a collection of sets (quorums) every two of which have a nonempty inter...
MAM
2002
13 years 11 months ago
2002
CACM
1999
13 years 11 months ago
1999
ion suffices ("decide which type you want and provide a full set of operations for each type"). If the application domain is, say, the administration of a university, the...
IPL
2002
13 years 11 months ago
2002
Inspired by recent algorithms for electing a leader in a distributed system, we study the following game in a directed graph: each vertex selects one of its outgoing arcs (if any)...