Given their simple nature, the success of keyword based retrieval systems is astonishing. Although these methods seemingly only process words (and their word counts), they rely on...
Preserving and fostering knowledge is the vital interest of a network-like virtual organization. The decentralized and geographically distributed organizational structure inhibits...
We describe a novel scalable group membership algorithm designed for wide area networks WANs. Our membership service does not evolve from existing LAN-oriented membership servic...
Idit Keidar, Jeremy B. Sussman, Keith Marzullo, Da...
This research is part of a project to develop practical, effective, formalizable, automatable techniques for integration testing. Integration testing is an important part of the t...
A. Jefferson Offutt, Aynur Abdurazik, Roger T. Ale...
: In modern organisations the monolithic information systems of the past are being gradually replaced by networked systems, enabling distributed computing often based on multi-agen...