Enhancing availability of cooperative applications through interoperable middleware

Journal of Information Science and Engineering

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 39-58

  Marchetti, Carlo ^a   Virgillito, Antonino ^a   Baldoni, Roberto ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cooperative information systems; CORBA; Fault tolerance; FT CORBA; Middleware platforms; Object replication

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTER SYSTEMS; MIDDLEWARE; NETWORKS (CIRCUITS);

INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

INFORMATION SCIENCE;

EID: 0037238390     PISSN: 10162364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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