Despite decades of research in extensible operating system technology, extensions such as device drivers remain a significant cause of system failures. In Windows XP, for example,...
Most Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems have been in operation for decades and they in general have 24x7 availability requirement, hence upgrading or adding ...
In CORBA-based applications that depend on object replication for fault tolerance, inconsistencies in the states of the replicas of an object can arise when concurrent threads wit...
Priya Narasimhan, Louise E. Moser, P. M. Melliar-S...
Instance orientation is an approach for designing and programming software systems. It addresses a limitation of current software architectures: it allows multiple higherlevel vie...
Many cooperated web cache systems and protocols have been proposed. But, these systems need the expensive resources, such as core-link bandwidth and proxy cpu or storage, and need...