Traditional concurrency control techniques for database systems (transaction management based on locking protocols) have been successful in many multiuser settings, but these tech...
The notion of belief has been useful in reasoning about authentication protocols. In this paper, we show how the notion of belief can be applied to reasoning about cache coherence...
Lily B. Mummert, Jeannette M. Wing, Mahadev Satyan...
In the process of developing an Information System, one passes through stages that include requirements gathering, design specification, and software implementation. The purpose ...
Alexander Borgida, John Mylopoulos, Joachim W. Sch...
Ficus is a replicated general ling environment for Unix intended to scale to very large nationwide networks. The system employs an optimistic one copy availability" model in ...
Gerald J. Popek, Richard G. Guy, Thomas W. Page Jr...
We investigate the properties of a multiagent system where each (distributed) agent locally perceives its environment. Upon perception of an unexpected event, each agent locally c...
Gauvain Bourgne, Gael Hette, Nicolas Maudet, Suzan...