1 Although widely used in distributed transactional systems, the so-called Two-Phase Commit (2PC) protocol introduces a substantial delay in transaction processing, even in the abs...
Maha Abdallah, Rachid Guerraoui, Philippe Pucheral
Over the last decade a wide range of publish/subscribe (pub/ sub) systems have come out of the research community. However, there is little consensus on a common pub/sub API, whic...
Peter R. Pietzuch, David M. Eyers, Samuel Kounev, ...
Abstract. Software security has become more important than ever. Unfortunately, still now, the security of a software system is almost always retrofitted to an afterthought. When s...
The Grid computing vision promises to provide the needed platform for a new and more demanding range of applications. For this promise to become true, a number of hurdles, includin...
Alexandru Iosup, Catalin Dumitrescu, Dick H. J. Ep...
Factoid questions often contain one or more assertions (facts) about their answers. However, existing question-answering (QA) systems have not investigated how the multiple facts ...