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CCS
1994
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Endorsements, Licensing, and Insurance for Distributed System Services
Clients in a distributedsystem place their con dencein many servers, and servers themselves rely on other servers for le storage, authentication, authorization, and payment. When ...
Gennady Medvinsky, Charlie Lai, B. Clifford Neuman
APSEC
1996
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
M-base : An Application Development Environment for End-user Computing based on Message Flow
Explosive increase in end-user computing on distributed systems requires that end-users develop application software by themselves. One solution is given as aformula of "adom...
Takeshi Chusho, Yuji Konishi, Masao Yoshioka
ICFEM
1998
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Interaction Interfaces - Towards a Scientific Foundation of a Methodological Usage of Message Sequence Charts
We introduce the formal notion of an interaction interface. Its purpose is to specify formally the interaction between two or more components that co-operate as subsystems of a di...
Manfred Broy, Ingolf Krüger
IPPS
1998
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
The Timewheel Group Membership Protocol
Abstract. We describe a group membership protocol, called the timewheel group membership protocol, for a timed asynchronous distributed system. This protocol is a part of the timew...
Shivakant Mishra, Christof Fetzer, Flaviu Cristian
IPPS
1999
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
ParaPART: Parallel Mesh Partitioning Tool for Distributed Systems
In this paper, we present ParaPART, a parallel version of a mesh partitioning tool, called PART, for distributed systems. PART takes into consideration the heterogeneities in proce...
Jian Chen, Valerie E. Taylor
IPPS
1999
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
Dependability Evaluation of Fault Tolerant Distributed Industrial Control Systems
Modern distributed industrial control systems need improvements in their dependability. In this paper we study the dependability of a fault tolerant distributed industrial control ...
José Carlos Campelo, Pedro Yuste, Francisco...
AC
1999
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
The University Student Registration System: A Case Study in Building a High-Availability Distributed Application Using General P
Prior to 1994, student registration at Newcastle University involved students being registered in a single place, where they would present a form which had previously been filled ...
Mark C. Little, Stuart M. Wheater, David B. Ingham...
FTDCS
1999
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
Coordinating Open Distributed Systems
Open Distributed Systems are the dominating intellectual issue of the end of this century. Figuring out how to build those systems will become a central issue in distributed system...
Juan Carlos Cruz, Stéphane Ducasse
SAC
2000
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Making Tuple Spaces Safe for Heterogeneous Distributed Systems
Linda is a high level communication model which allows agents to communicate via a shared tuple spaces without knowing each other’s identities and without having to arrange for ...
Naftaly H. Minsky, Yaron Minsky, Victoria Ungurean...
ICDCS
2000
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
Scheduling with Global Information in Distributed Systems
Buffered coscheduling is a distributed scheduling methodology for time-sharing communicating processes in a distributed system, e.g., PC cluster. The principle mechanisms involved...
Fabrizio Petrini, Wu-chun Feng