Abstract--Mobile systems increasingly are being used for production-grade datacentered applications which require system support for transactional properties. For mobile applicatio...
Database replication protocols have historically been built on top of distributed database systems, and have consequently been designed and implemented using distributed transacti...
or fault-tolerant asynchronous systems. It abstracts a family of problems known as Agreement (or Coordination) problems. Any solution to consensus can serve as a basic building blo...
The emerging consensus on the boundaries and main elements of the Software Engineering (SE) discipline represents an opportunity for the engineering of shared conceptualizations t...
In the business world, exchange of signatures or receipts is a common practice in case of future dispute. Likewise, it is critical in E-commerce applications to have the security ...