The general approach to fault tolerance in uniprocessor systems is to maintain enough time redundancy in the schedule so that any task instance can be re-executed in presence of f...
Simulation and optimization of complex mechanical and electronical systems is a very time consuming and computationally intensive task. Therefore, metamodeling techniques are ofte...
Dirk Gorissen, Wouter Hendrickx, Karel Crombecq, T...
A quorum system is a collection of sets (quorums) every two of which intersect. Quorum systems have been used for many applications in the area of distributed systems, including mu...
With the emergence of global market and virtual enterprises, coordination of business processes in dispersed organizations by distributed workflow execution will take on more impo...
It is considered good distributed computing practice to devise object implementations that tolerate contention, periods of asynchrony and a large number of failures, but perform f...