Middleware has emerged as an important architectural component in supporting distributed applications. With the expanding role of middleware, however, a number of problems are emer...
Optimistically replicated systems provide highly available data even when communication between data replicas is unreliable or unavailable. The high availability comes at the cost...
In light of advances in processor and networking technology, especially the emergence of network attached disks, the traditional client-server architecture becomes suboptimal for ...
Jiong Yang, Silvia Nittel, Wei Wang 0010, Richard ...
Collision detection is essential for many applications involving simulation, behavior and animation. However, it has been regarded as a computationallydemanding task and is often ...
Thomas C. Hudson, Ming C. Lin, Jonathan D. Cohen, ...
The virtual synchrony model for group communication has proven to be a powerful paradigm for building distributed applications. Implementationsof virtual synchrony usually require...