In distributed systems that use active replication to achieve robustness, it is important to efficiently enforce consistency among replicas. The nonblocking mode helps to speed u...
We investigate a problem of maintaining a target population of mobile agents in a distributed system. The purpose of the agents is to perform certain activities, so the goal is to...
Zbigniew Golebiewski, Miroslaw Kutylowski, Tomasz ...
1 Switched system-area networks enable thousands of storage devices to be shared and directly accessed by end hosts, promising databases and filesystems highly scalable, reliable ...
Traditionally transactions have been singlethreaded. In such an environment the thread terminating the transaction is, by definition, the thread which performed the work. Therefor...
Steve J. Caughey, Mark C. Little, Santosh K. Shriv...
Discovery of large amounts of idle CPUs in fully distributed and shared Grid systems is needed in relevant applications and is still a challenging problem. In this paper we present...