Crash and omission failures are common in service providers: a disk can break down or a link can fail anytime. In addition, the probability of a node failure increases with the num...
Preserving one's uniquely customized computing environment as one moves to different locations is an enduring challenge in mobile computing. We examine why this capability is...
Mahadev Satyanarayanan, Michael Kozuch, Casey Helf...
In teaching operating systems at an undergraduate level, we believe that it is important to provide a project that is realistic enough to show how real operating systems work, yet...
Wayne A. Christopher, Steven J. Procter, Thomas E....
Parallel programming on distributed memory systems is one of the most challenging research areas in parallel computingtoday. Objectbased parallel programming languages are an impor...
We compare di erent degrees of architecture abstraction and communication reliability in distributed programming languages. A nearly architecture independent logic programming lang...