Mobile agent systems typically consist of many elements that dynamically change behaviour and have to face various faults and errors due to system openness and agent autonomy. Individual agents have to cope with those threats in order to ensure the ...

Distributed systems are now widely accepted as a solution to many computing needs. A common distributed system architecture style used today is the three-tiered client-server style; and, a popular technology that realizes this style is the Java Platform,...

One important way that an architecture impacts fault tolerance is by making it easy or hard to implement measures that improve fault tolerance. Many such measures are described as fault tolerance tactics. We studied how various fault tolerance tactics ...