Distributed applications must often consider and select the appropriate trade-offs among three important aspects ? fault-tolerance, performance and resources. We introduce a novel ...
Orphan requests are a significant problem for multi-tier distributed systems since they adversely impact system correctness by violating the exactly-once semantics of application...
In component software, the independence of components is achieved by separating their interfaces from implementations. The interface definition of a component serves as the contr...
Many interesting large-scale systems are distributed systems of multiple communicating components. Such systems can be very hard to debug, especially when they exhibit poor perfor...
Marcos Kawazoe Aguilera, Jeffrey C. Mogul, Janet L...
This paper describes the development of a question answering system for monolingual and cross-lingual tasks for the languages English and German. We developed the question answeri...