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IEEEARES
2008
IEEE
15 years 5 months ago
Assessing the Reliability and Cost of Web and Grid Orchestrations
Unreliability is a characteristic feature of web and grid based computation: a call to a web or grid site may or may not succeed. An orchestration manager aims to control web or g...
Alan Stewart, Maurice Clint, Terry Harmer, Peter K...
DSN
2007
IEEE
15 years 5 months ago
On the Cost of Modularity in Atomic Broadcast
Modularity is a desirable property of complex software systems, since it simplifies code reuse, verification, maintenance, etc. However, the use of loosely coupled modules intro...
Olivier Rütti, Sergio Mena, Richard Ekwall, A...
FOCS
2003
IEEE
15 years 4 months ago
The Cost of Cache-Oblivious Searching
This paper gives tight bounds on the cost of cache-oblivious searching. The paper shows that no cache-oblivious search structure can guarantee a search performance of fewer than l...
Michael A. Bender, Gerth Stølting Brodal, R...
EDOC
2000
IEEE
15 years 3 months ago
Pay As You Go-Associating Costs with Jini Leases
Jini is a technology for building reliable, fault-tolerant distributed applications. Besides offering an infrastructure for clients to locate services, it introduces the concept o...
Peer Hasselmeyer, Markus Schumacher, Marco Vo&szli...
CHI
1996
ACM
15 years 2 months ago
Peepholes: Low Cost Awareness of One's Community
In distributed communities, media spaces supply people with an awareness of who is around by displaying video or periodic snapshots of common areas and offices. This in turn facil...
Saul Greenberg