This survey characterizes an emerging research area, sometimes called coordination
theory, that focuses on the interdisciplinary study of coordination. Research in this area uses …

The state machine approach is a general method for implementing fault-tolerant services in
distributed systems. This paper reviews the approach and describes protocols for two …

Bigtable is a distributed storage system for managing structured data that is designed to
scale to a very large size: petabytes of data across thousands of commodity servers. Many …

In Distributed Algorithms, Nancy Lynch provides a blueprint for designing, implementing,
and analyzing distributed algorithms. She directs her book at a wide audience, including …

Reasoning about knowledge—particularly the knowledge of agents who reason about the
world and each other's knowledge—was once the exclusive province of philosophers and …

I am pleased to announce the free on-line availability of the book" Concurrency Control and
Recovery in Database Systems," by Philip A. Bernstein, Vassos Hadzilacos, and Nathan …

Distributed Systems Page 1 DS 2006; Ch1 16-Jan-06 Timo Alanko, 2006 1 Distributed
Systems Spring 2006 Timo Alanko 16-Jan-06 2 Sources of material • Tanenbaum, van …

Multiagent systems combine multiple autonomous entities, each having diverging interests
or different information. This overview of the field offers a computer science perspective, but …

The first edition of this book appeared in 1991 when the technology was new and there were
not too many products. In the Preface to the first edition, we had quoted Michael Stonebraker …

Database Management Systems provides comprehensive and up-to-date coverage of the
fundamentals of database systems. Coherent explanations and practical examples have …