This paper presents a formal design for a novel group communication service targeted for WANs. The service provides Virtual Synchrony semantics. Such semantics facilitate the desi...
Over the past two years, horrific disasters such as the Asian Tsunami, Hurricane Katrina, and the Pakistan Earthquake have demonstrated the critical need for effective technologic...
Brian M. Tomaszewski, Alan M. MacEachren, Scott Pe...
Item selection is a key problem in electronic guidebook design. Many systems do not apply so-called “context-awareness” technologies to infer user interest, placing the entire...
Much of the research work on design patterns has primarily focused on discovering and documenting patterns. Design patterns promise early reuse benefits at the design stage. To rea...
We propose a lightweight fault-tolerant multicast and membership service for real-time process groups which may exchange periodic and aperiodic messages. The service supports boun...
Tarek F. Abdelzaher, Anees Shaikh, Farnam Jahanian...