Building dependable distributed systems using ad hoc methods is a challenging task. Without proper support, an application programmer must face the daunting requirement of having ...
Jennifer Ren, Michel Cukier, Paul Rubel, William H...
The DWS (Data Warehouse Striping) technique is a data partitioning approach especially designed for distributed data warehousing environments. In DWS the fact tables are distribute...
Raquel Almeida, Jorge Vieira, Marco Vieira, Henriq...
In this paper we show the power of sampling techniques in designing efficient distributed algorithms. In particular, we show that using sampling techniques, on some networks, sele...
A number of solutions have been proposed for the problem of mutual exclusion in distributed systems. Some of these approaches have since been extended to a prioritized environment...
Abstract In future, parallel and distributed computing paradigms will replace nowadays predominant sequential and centralized ones. Facing the challenge to support the construction...