Intensive research and development has been conducted in the design and creation of groupware systems for distributed users. While for some activities, these groupware tools are wi...
Companies cooperating in the framework of a virtual enterprise have increasing demands for systems on which to base applications for their particular environment: groups of worker...
Faults in distributed systems can result in errors that manifest in several ways, potentially even in parts of the system that are not collocated with the root cause. These manife...
Andrew W. Williams, Soila M. Pertet, Priya Narasim...
The diversity of computers and networks within a distributed system makes these systems highly heterogeneous. System heterogeneity complicates the design of static applications tha...
Abstract. Upgrading the software of long-lived, highly-available distributed systems is difficult. It is not possible to upgrade all the nodes in a system at once, since some nodes...