SIGACT
2010
13 years 7 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 7 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 7 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 10 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 11 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 11 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
14 years 11 days 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
14 years 12 days ago
2002
CACM
1999
14 years 12 days 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
14 years 12 days 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)...