This paper describes a novel approach to providingmodular and extensible operating system functionality and encapsulated environments based on a synthesis of microkernel and virtu...
Bryan Ford, Mike Hibler, Jay Lepreau, Patrick Tull...
Inter-process communication (ipc) has to be fast and e ective, otherwise programmers will not use remote procedure calls(RPC),multithreadingand multitasking adequately. Thus ipc p...
This paper describes a new method for providingtransparent fault tolerance for parallel applications on a network of workstations. We have designed our method in the context of sh...
A multidatabase system (MDBS) is a facility that allows users access to data located in multiple autonomous database management systems (DBMSs). In such a system, globaltransaction...
Yuri Breitbart, Hector Garcia-Molina, Abraham Silb...
This paper describes an algorithm, called CQ-learning, which learns to adapt the state representation for multi-agent systems in order to coordinate with other agents. We propose ...