Chameleon: A software infrastructure for adaptive fault tolerance

IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 560-579

  Kalbarczyk, Zbigniew T ^a,b   Iyer, Ravishankar K ^a,b   Bagchi, Saurabh ^a,b   Whisnant, Keith ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b IEEE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SOFTWARE PACKAGE CHAMELEON;

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER SYSTEMS PROGRAMMING; DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; GATEWAYS (COMPUTER NETWORKS); RESPONSE TIME (COMPUTER SYSTEMS); SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 0032686475     PISSN: 10459219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/71.774907     Document Type: Article

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