SRDS
1999
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
1999
IEEE
Numerous mathematical approaches have been proposed to determine the optimal checkpoint interval for minimizing total execution time of an application in the presence of failures....
SRDS
1999
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
1999
IEEE
The paper presents the design of a software infrastructure that can support negotiation and competition among buyers and sellers of goods (auctioning) over the Internet. The goals...
SRDS
1999
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
1999
IEEE
In CORBA-based applications that depend on object replication for fault tolerance, inconsistencies in the states of the replicas of an object can arise when concurrent threads wit...
SRDS
1999
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
1999
IEEE
In order for mobile agents to be accepted as a basic technology for enabling electronic commerce, proper security mechanisms must be developed. Hosts must be protected from malici...
SRDS
1999
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
1999
IEEE
We study how to efficiently diffuse updates to a large distributed system of data replicas, some of which may exhibit arbitrary (Byzantine) failures. We assume that strictly fewer...
SRDS
1999
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
1999
IEEE
This paper describes the design and implementation of a fault-tolerant CORBA naming service - CosNamingFT. Every CORBA object is accessed through its Interoperable Object Referenc...
SRDS
1999
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
1999
IEEE
In our paper we argue that the building of trust in electronic commerce depends only partly on technical security and the knowledge of security gaps and ways of closing them. It i...
SRDS
1999
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
1999
IEEE
Software distributed shared memory (DSM) improves the programmability of message-passing machines and workclusters by providing a shared memory abstract (i.e., a coherent global a...
SRDS
1999
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
1999
IEEE
Ad-hoc wireless networks have no wired component, and may have unpredictable mobility pattern. Such networks can get partitioned and reconnected several times. One possible approa...
SRDS
1999
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
1999
IEEE
Hybrid systems like computer-controlled chemical plants are typical safety critical distributed systems. In present practice, the safety of hybrid systems is guaranteed by hazard ...