For many application-level distributed protocols and parallel algorithms, the set of participants, the number of messages or the interaction structure are only known at run-time. T...
—With the rapid expansion of satellite communication, an increasing number of unattended ground terminals are spreading out to serve local customers. And there is a great demand ...
—Current approaches to transactional support of distributed processes in service-oriented environments are limited to scenarios where the participant initiating the process maint...
Michael Von Riegen, Martin Husemann, Norbert Ritte...
In environments like the Internet, faults follow unusual patterns, dictated by the combination of malicious attacks with accidental faults such as long communication delays caused...
Giuliana Santos Veronese, Miguel Correia, Lau Cheu...
Externalities occur among agglomerated firms. Scale externalities occur between firms in an industry with similar activities. Scope externalities occur when heterogeneous activiti...