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 …

This paper aims at discussing and classifying the various ways in which the object paradigm
is used in concurrent and distributed contexts. We distinguish among the library approach …

The widespread use of clusters and Web farms has increased the importance of data
replication. In this article, we show how to implement consistent and scalable data …

One of the fundamental differences between a centralized system and a distributed one is
the notion of partial failures. The ability to efficiently and accurately detect failures is a key …

This paper presents the semi-passive replication technique, a variant of passive replication,
that can be implemented in the asynchronous system model without requiring a membership …

It has been almost a decade since the earliest reliable CORBA implementation and, despite
the adoption of the fault-tolerant CORBA (FT-CORBA) standard by the Object Management …

Distributed computing is one of the major trends in the computer industry. As systems
become more distributed, they also become more complex and have to deal with new kinds …

This paper discusses the issues involved in supporting high-volume, highly-reliable, Web
services. Such services pose a number of diverse technical challenges. The paper …

This thesis is centered around the topic database replication. The work has been moti¬
vated by advances in the development of cluster databases and their specific demands in …

In CORBA-based applications that depend on object replication for fault tolerance,
inconsistencies in the states of the replicas of an object can arise when concurrent threads …