Many interesting large-scale systems are distributed systems of multiple communicating components. Such systems can be very hard to debug, especially when they exhibit poor perfor...
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Ficus is a replicated general ling environment for Unix intended to scale to very large nationwide networks. The system employs an optimistic one copy availability" model in ...
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Providing assurances of performance is an important aspect of successful development and commercialization of expert systems. However, this can only be done if the quality of the ...
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The challenge for user authentication in a global file system is allowing people to grant access to specific users and groups in remote administrative domains, without assuming ...
Michael Kaminsky, George Savvides, David Mazi&egra...
Traditional concurrency control techniques for database systems (transaction management based on locking protocols) have been successful in many multiuser settings, but these tech...