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BNCOD
2006
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13 years 7 months ago
Reducing Sub-transaction Aborts and Blocking Time Within Atomic Commit Protocols
Composed Web service transactions executed in distributed networks often require an atomic execution. Guaranteeing atomicity in mobile networks involves a lot more challenges than ...
Stefan Böttcher, Le Gruenwald, Sebastian Ober...
ATAL
2004
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Naming Services in Multi-Agent Systems: A Design for Agent-Based White Pages
Distributed multi-agent systems require naming services to locate and communicate with remote agents. In this paper we focus on the design and implementation of the “White Pages...
Todd Wright
ASPLOS
2011
ACM
12 years 9 months ago
Mementos: system support for long-running computation on RFID-scale devices
Transiently powered computing devices such as RFID tags, kinetic energy harvesters, and smart cards typically rely on programs that complete a task under tight time constraints be...
Benjamin Ransford, Jacob Sorber, Kevin Fu
OSDI
2008
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
CuriOS: Improving Reliability through Operating System Structure
An error that occurs in a microkernel operating system service can potentially result in state corruption and service failure. A simple restart of the failed service is not always...
Francis M. David, Ellick Chan, Jeffrey C. Carlyle,...
BMCBI
2008
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13 years 6 months ago
Snagger: A user-friendly program for incorporating additional information for tagSNP selection
Background: There has been considerable effort focused on developing efficient programs for tagging single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs). Many of these programs do not account f...
Christopher K. Edlund, Won H. Lee, Dalin Li, David...