ISBN: 3-540-67196-X
TITLE: Advances in Distributed Systems
AUTHOR: Krakowiak, Sacha; Shrivastava, Santosh (Eds.)
TOC:

Part 1 Distributed Algorithms
Time in Distributed System Models and Algorithms 1
Paulo Verssimo, Michel Raynal
Consensus in Asynchronous Distributed Systems: A Concise Guided Tour 33
Rachid Guerraoui, Michel Hurfin, Achour Mostefaoui, Riucarlos Oliveira, Michel Raynal, Andre Schiper
Group Communication in Partitionable Distributed Systems 48
zalp Babaoglu, Renzo Davoli, Alberto Montresor
Enhancing Replica Management Services to Cope with Group Failures 79
Paul D. Ezhilchelvan, Santosh K. Shrivastava
Recent Advances in Distributed Garbage Collection 104
Marc Shapiro, Fabrice Le Fessant, Paulo Ferreira
Topology-Aware Algorithms for Large-Scale Communication 127
Lus Rodrigues, Paulo Verssimo
Part 2 Systems Architecture
Responsive Protocols for Distributed Multimedia Applications 157
Fabio Panzieri, Marco Roccetti
Programming Partition-Aware Network Applications 182
zalp Babaoglu, Alberto Bartoli, Gianluca Dini
Deploying Distributed Objects on the Internet 213
Steve J. Caughey, Daniel Hagimont, David B. Ingham
Integrating Group Communication with Transactions for Implementing Persistent Replicated Objects 238
Mark C. Little, Santosh K. Shrivastava
Replication of CORBA Objects 254
Pascal Felber, Rachid Guerraoui, Andr Schiper
Constructing Dependable Web Services 277
David B. Ingham, Fabio Panzieri, Santosh K. Shrivastava
Part 3 Applications Support
Support for Distributed CSCW Applications 295
Franois J.N. Cosquer, Paulo Verssimo, Sacha Krakowiak, Loc Decloedt
Component-Based Programming of Distributed Applications 327
Valrie Issarny, Luc Bellissard, Michel Riveill, Apostolos Zarras
OPENflow: A CORBA Based Transactional Workflow System 354
Stuart M. Wheater, Santosh K. Shrivastava, Frederic Ranno
Improving the Effectiveness of Web Caching 375
Jean-Marc Menaud, Valrie Issarny, Michel Bantre
Mobility and Coordination for Distributed Java Applications 402
Paolo Ciancarini, Andrea Giovannini, Davide Rossi
Part 4 Case Studies
PerDiS: Design, Implementation, and Use of a PERsistent DIstributed Store 427
Paulo Ferreira, Marc Shapiro, Xavier Blondel, Olivier Fambon, Joo Garcia, Sytse Kloosterman, Nicolas Richer, Marcus Robert, Fadi Sandakly, George Coulouris, Jean Dollimore, Paulo Guedes, Daniel Hagimont, Sacha Krakowiak
The University Student Registration System: A Case Study in Building a High-Availability Distributed Application Using General Purpose Components 453
Mark C. Little, Stuart M. Wheater, David B. Ingham, C. Richard Snow, Harry Whitfield, Santosh K. Shrivastava
Quality of Service and Electronic Newspaper: The Etel Solution 472
Valrie Issarny, Michel Bantre, Boris Charpiot, Jean-Marc Menaud
FlexiNet: A Flexible, Component-Oriented Middleware System 497
Richard Hayton, Andrew Herbert
Author Index 509
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