Existing security models require that information of a given security level be prevented from “leaking” into lower-security information. High-security applications must be dem...
Coordination languages have recently been attracting signi cant attention as a means of programming parallel and distributed systems. The approach of separating coordination from ...
We present Tigris, a high-performance computation and I/O substrate for clusters of workstations that is implemented entirely in Java. Tigris automatically balances resource load a...
In distributed systems that use active replication to achieve robustness, it is important to efficiently enforce consistency among replicas. The nonblocking mode helps to speed u...
Users have been demanding information “anytime, anywhere”. The notion of accessing diverse and autonomous information repositories with different APIs is not accepted. This ha...