A major cost in executing queries in a distributed database system is the data transfer cost incurred in transferring relations (fragments) accessed by a query from different sites...
Validating distributed systems is particularly difficult, since failures may occur due to a correlated occurrence of faults in different parts of the system. This paper describes ...
Michel Cukier, Ramesh Chandra, David Henke, Jessic...
In contrast to a large body of theoretical work on computer systems, distributed systems are not idealised constructions, unconstrained by physical world limitations. They must be...
Abstract--In the context of a project aimed at the development of a cooperative and distributed Authoring System to facilitate the production, sharing, and integration of new and e...
Giuseppe Rizzo, Biagio Meirone, Pierluigi Di Nunzi...
Routing strategy is one of the most important aspects in a mobile agent system, which is a complex combinatorial problem. Most of current mobile agent systems adopt static routing ...
Dan Wang, Ge Yu, Mingsong Lv, Baoyan Song, Derong ...