We consider the randomized consensus protocol of Aspnes and Herlihy for achieving agreement among N asynchronous processes that communicate via read/write shared registers. The alg...
Marta Z. Kwiatkowska, Gethin Norman, Roberto Segal...
The UML goal of being a general-purpose modeling language discards the possibility to adopt too precise and strict a semantics. Users are to refine or define the semantics in th...
Communicating finite state machines (CFSMs) represent processes which communicate by asynchronous exchanges of messages via FIFO channels. Their major impact has been in character...
the emergence of Internet and new kind of architecture, likepeer-to-peer (P2P) networks, provides great hope for distributed computation. However, the combination of the world of ...
The Network Weather Service NWS is a distributed resource monitoring and utilization prediction system, employed as an aid to scheduling jobs in a metacomputing environment 9, 1...
Robert E. Busby Jr., Mitchell L. Neilsen, Daniel A...