Fault tolerant distributed protocols typically utilize a homogeneous fault model, either fail-crash or fail-Byzantine, where all processors are assumed to fail in the same manner....
Flexible and distributed management systems based on mobile agents have certain advantages over centralized and static management architectures. However, security plays a decisive...
Most mature workflow management systems (WfMSs) available today execute workflows via orchestration of an available set of services, a process in which a central coordinating enti...
Rohan Sen, Gruia-Catalin Roman, Christopher D. Gil...
Service discovery and its automation are some of the key features that a large scale, open distributed system must provide so that clients and users may take advantage of shared re...
Understanding the performance of distributed systems requires correlation of thousands of interactions between numerous components — a task best left to a computer. Today’s sy...
Paul Barham, Rebecca Isaacs, Richard Mortier, Dush...