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ICDCS
1996
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
Scaling Heterogeneous Databases and the Design of Disco
Access to large numbers of data sources introduces new problems for users of heterogeneous distributed databases. End users and application programmers must deal with unavailable ...
Anthony Tomasic, Louiqa Raschid, Patrick Valduriez
ICDCS
1996
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
Making Trust Explicit in Distributed Commerce Transactions
In a distributed environment where nodes are independently motivated, many transactions or commercial exchanges may be stymied due to a lack of trust between the participants. The...
Steven P. Ketchpel, Hector Garcia-Molina
ICDCS
1996
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
The Relative Importance of Concurrent Writers and Weak Consistency Models
This paper presents a detailed comparison of the relative importance of allowing concurrent writers versus the choice of the underlying consistency model. Our comparison is based ...
Peter J. Keleher
ICDCS
1996
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
An Evaluation of the Amoeba Group Communication System
The Amoeba group communication system has two unique aspects: (1) it uses a sequencer-based protocol with negative acknowledgements for achieving a total order on all group messag...
M. Frans Kaashoek, Andrew S. Tanenbaum
ICDCS
1996
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
Supporting a Flexible Parallel Programming Model on a Network of Workstations
We introduce a shared memory software prototype system for executing programs with nested parallelism on a network of workstations. This programming model exhibits a very convenie...
Shih-Chen Huang, Zvi M. Kedem
ICDCS
1996
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
Dynamic Scheduling Strategies for Shared-memory Multiprocessors
Efficiently scheduling parallel tasks on to the processors of a shared-memory multiprocessor is critical to achieving high performance. Given perfect information at compile-time, ...
Babak Hamidzadeh, David J. Lilja
ICDCS
1996
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
Hidden Software Capabilities
: Software capabilities are a very convenient means to protect co-operating applications. They allow access rights to be dynamically exchanged between mutually suspicious interacti...
Daniel Hagimont, Jacques Mossière, Xavier R...
ICDCS
1996
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
Larchant: Persistence by Reachability in Distributed Shared Memory Through Garbage Collection
We consider a shared store based on distributed shared memory (DSM), supporting persistence by reachability (PBR), a very simple data sharing model for a distributed system. This ...
Paulo Ferreira, Marc Shapiro