The literature on communication-induced checkpointing presents a family of protocols that
use logical clocks to control whether forced checkpoints must be taken. Efficiency of these …

Companies, organizations and individuals use Web services to build complex business
functionalities. Web services must operate properly in the unreliable Internet infrastructure …

The evolution of business software technologies is constant and is becoming increasingly
complex which leads to a great probability of software/hardware failures. Business …

The Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) has become one of the predominant
standards for Web services compositions oriented to business processes. An important …

The autonomic computing paradigm is oriented towards enabling complex distributed
systems to manage themselves, even in faulty situations. The diagnosability analysis is a …

Autonomic Computing Systems are oriented to prevent the human intervention and to
enable distributed systems to manage themselves. One of their challenges is the efficient …

Causal ordering is an important property in distributed systems. Several algorithms have
been developed over this principle. For example, there are solutions for roll-back recovery …

The world is increasingly dependent on critical infrastructures such as the electric power
grid, water, gas, and oil transport systems, which are susceptible to cascading failures that …

A protocol HMNR, was proposed to utilize control information of every other process
piggybacked on each sent message for minimizing the number of forced checkpoints. Then …

IBM created a new paradigm called Autonomic Computing (AC); where systems are seen as
self-manageable. To attack the problem of intercommunication and heterogeneity the …