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MIDDLEWARE
2009
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
2009
Springer
Abstract. Enterprise-system upgrades are unreliable and often produce downtime or data-loss. Errors in the upgrade procedure, such as broken dependencies, constitute the leading ca...
USITS
2003
13 years 6 months ago
2003
In 1986 Jim Gray published his landmark study of the causes of failures of Tandem systems and the techniques Tandem used to prevent such failures [6]. Seventeen years later, Inter...
SIGMOD
2006
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2006
ACM
In this paper we analyze the problem of schema matching, explain why it is such a "tough" problem and suggest directions for handling it effectively. In particular, we p...
DSN
2004
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
2004
IEEE
Software configuration problems are a major source of failures in computer systems. In this paper, we present a new framework for categorizing configuration problems. We apply thi...
EUROPAR
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
2005
Springer
Scientists are increasingly using large distributed systems built from commodity off-the-shelf components to perform scientific computation. Grid computing has expanded the scale ...