The Bancomat problem: an example of resource allocation in a partitionable asynchronous system
Theoretical Computer Science - Special issue: Distributed computing
APSEC '03 Proceedings of the Tenth Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference Software Engineering Conference
Adding High Availability and Autonomic Behavior to Web Services
Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Software Engineering
Dynamic service composition using semantic information
Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Service oriented computing
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Optimal Fault Tolerance Strategy Selection for Web Services
International Journal of Web Services Research
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Developing techniques to increase the availability of web services in the event of failure has become increasingly important given their key role in providing access to online information, financial, and retail resources. This paper describes an approach to improving availability by using failover between similar but not identical services, and the use of cooperative fault tolerance between the providers of these services. With this approach, a similar service can be used as a backup, with the protocol and service differences between the two services masked by the use of transformation web services that are generated semi-automatically. The basic idea of cooperative fault-tolerance using similar services is presented based on an example involving two stock broker services. The software architecture and the process for generating the transformation web services using a code generation tool are also described, along with experimental results from the stock broker example. These results suggest that the transformation overhead is modest compared with the typical cost of communication.