View-oriented group communication is an important and widely used building block for
many distributed applications. Much current research has been dedicated to specifying the …

Group Communication Specifications: A Comprehensive Study Page 1 Group
Communication Specifications: A Comprehensive Study Roman Vitenberg Department of …

The mechanisms used to improve the reliability of distributed systems often limit
performance and scalability. Focusing on one widely‐used definition of reliability, we …

Many distributed services need to be scalable: internet search, electronic commerce, e-
government ...… In order to achieve scalability those applications rely on replicated …

One mission of medical informatics is to provide physicians, nurses, and other health care
providers with the technology and tools for interpreting large and diverse data sets, so that …

Most existing communications technologies are either not scalable at all or scale only under
carefully controlled conditions. This threatens an emerging generation of mission-critical but …

Revenues generated by video games typically surpass those provided by the
cinematography industry. The pace of development in hardware and software networking …

The focus of this paper is on causal consistency in a partially replicated distributed shared
memory (DSM) system that provides the abstraction of shared read/write registers …

Computer supported collaborative applications on overlay networks are gaining popularity
among users who are geographically dispersed. Examples of these kinds of applications …

O crescimento da dependência de serviços baseados na Internet, durante as últimas duas
décadas, causou um aumento na adoção de sistemas geo-replicados. O desenho deste …