The perfectly synchronized round model provides the abstraction of crash-stop failures with atomic message delivery. This abstraction makes distributed programming very easy. We p...
Although database replication has been a standard feature in database management systems for a long time, third party solutions have been enjoying an increasing popularity. These ...
In order to reduce the overhead of synchronizing operations of shared memory multiprocessors, this paper proposes a mechanism, named specMEM, to execute memory accesses following ...
With the rise of XML, the database community has been challenged by semi-structured data processing. Since the data type behind XML is the tree, state-of-the-art RDBMSs have learn...
In traditional distributed simulation schemes, entire simulation needs to be restarted if any of the participating LP crashes. This is highly undesirable for long running simulati...