Determinism is mandatory for replicating distributed objects with strict consistency guarantees. Multithreaded execution of method invocations is a source of nondeterminism, but h...
The common vision of pervasive computing environments requires a very large range of devices and software components to interoperate seamlessly. From the assumption that these dev...
Embodied agents or humanoid avatars may effectively be used to communicate with human users. Currently there is a wide range of specification formalisms and scripting languages f...
We address the problem of message ordering for reliable multicast communication. End-to-end multicast ordering is useful for ensuring the collective integrity and consistency of d...
: The EM-4 is a supercomputer that offers very fast inter processor communication and support for multi threading. In this paper we demonstrate that the EM-4, Together with an auto...