New application scenarios, such as Internet-scale computations, nomadic networks and mobile systems, require decentralized, scalable and open infrastructures. The peerto-peer (P2P...
Wide-area parallel processing systems will soon be available to researchers to solve a range of problems. In these systems, it is certain that host failures and other faults will ...
Usually complex systems are controlled by an operator co-operating with a computer-based controller. The controlling software runs in continuous interaction with the operator and c...
Failures of all forms happen: from losing single network packets to site-wide disasters. Since businesses rely heavily on their data, it is imperative that failures require minima...