Dynamic Voting Algorithms for Maintaining the Consistency of a Replicated Database

ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS)

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 1990, Pages 230-280

  Jajodia, S ^a   Mutchler, David ^b  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING--ALGORITHMS;

DYNAMIC VOTING; NETWORK PARTITIONING; PESSIMISTIC ALGORITHMS; REPLICATED DATABASES; SERIALIZABILITY; VOTING ALGORITHMS;

DATABASE SYSTEMS;

EID: 0025446697     PISSN: 03625915     EISSN: 15574644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/78922.78926     Document Type: Article

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