Virtualization provides the possibility of whole machine migration and thus enables a new form of fault tolerance that is completely transparent to applications and operating syst...
If a groupware system is to be effectively used, especially over a wide-are network such as the Internet, where the quality of networking and computing resources are unpredictable...
Fault tolerance is essential to the development of reliable mobile agent system in order to guarantee continuous execution of mobile agents. For this purpose, some previous works ...
SungJin Choi, MaengSoon Baik, HongSoo Kim, JunWeon...
Some safety-critical distributed embedded systems may need to use centralized components to achieve certain dependability properties. The difficulty in combining centralized and d...
The idle computers on a local area, campus area, or even wide area network represent a significant computational resource--one that is, however, also unreliable, heterogeneous, an...