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An Approach To Decentralized Computer Systems (1985)  (Make Corrections)  (13 citations)
Jim Gray
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Abstract: The technology for distributed computing is available. However, decentralized systems still pose design and management problems. Decentralized systems will always require more careful design, planning, and management than their centralized counterparts. (Update)

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.... action paradigm involves passive objects that export actions, which are operations to modify the long lived state of the object [Gra86] These actions are serializable, which means that the effect of any concurrent execution of actions on the same object is equivalent to...

...paper was published in Proc. 2d Int. Workshop on Configurable Distributed Systems, Pittsburgh, March 1994. unavailability. For example, [11] reports that 42 of the failures in the Tandem distributed systems are caused by human mistakes made during maintenance, operation and...

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Gray, J.N., An Approach to Decentralized Computer Systems, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering Vol.12 No.6, 1986 http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/gray85approach.html   More

@article{ gray86approach,
    author = "Jim Gray",
    title = "An Approach to Decentralized Computer Systems",
    journal = "Software Engineering",
    volume = "12",
    number = "6",
    pages = "684-692",
    year = "1986",
    url = "citeseer.ist.psu.edu/gray85approach.html" }
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