Concurrent exception handling and resolution in distributed object systems

IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems

Volumn 11, Issue 10, 2000, Pages 1019-1032

  Xu, Jie ^a   Romanovsky, Alexander ^b   Randell, Brian ^b  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COMPUTER SYSTEM RECOVERY; CONCURRENCY CONTROL; FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTER SYSTEMS; LINGUISTICS; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING;

CONCURRENT EXCEPTION HANDLING; COORDINATED ATOMIC ACTIONS; DISTRIBUTED ALGORITHMS; DISTRIBUTED OBJECT SYSTEMS;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 0034291142     PISSN: 10459219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/71.888642     Document Type: Article

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