Autonomous recovery in componentized Internet applications

Cluster Computing

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 175-190

  Candea, George ^a   Kiciman, Emre ^a   Kawamoto, Shinichi ^a   Fox, Armando ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 26844516442     PISSN: 13867857     EISSN: 15737543     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10586-006-7562-4     Document Type: Article

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