Abstract :
The following topics were dealt with: communication architectures, transaction models, task scheduling, protocol specification, synchronization, concurrency control, communication protocols, fault tolerant interconnection networks, protocol testing, performance evaluation, database reliability, protocol conversion, modeling, software engineering, file replication, decentralized protocols, real-time issues, software engineering theory, system design, computer-supported cooperative work, object naming, distributed cooperative control, fault tolerant algorithms, coteries, distributed artificial intelligence, and synchronization algorithms
Keywords :
database management systems; distributed processing; fault tolerant computing; protocols; scheduling; software engineering; transaction processing; communication architectures; communication protocols; computer-supported cooperative work; concurrency control; coteries; database reliability; decentralized protocols; distributed artificial intelligence; distributed cooperative control; fault tolerant algorithms; fault tolerant interconnection networks; file replication; modeling; object naming; performance evaluation; protocol conversion; protocol specification; protocol testing; real-time issues; software engineering; software engineering theory; synchronization; synchronization algorithms; system design; task scheduling; transaction models;