We present a simple approach for implementing flexible locking strategies in a system of components, which may themselves be composite objects. The approach is flexible in that a ...
Detection and self-protection against viruses, worms, and network attacks is urgently needed to protect network systems and their applications from catastrophic failures. Once a n...
Web Services together with Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA) are playing an important role in the future of distributed computing, significantly impacting software development ...
Availability is a critical issue in modern distributed systems. While many techniques and protocols for preventing denial of service (DoS) attacks have been proposed and deployed ...
Detection and diagnosis of faults in a large-scale distributed system is a formidable task. Interest in monitoring and using traces of user requests for fault detection has been o...