863 research outputs found
The GARF Library of DSM Consistency Models
No full textRachid Guerraoui, Benoit Garbinato, Karim R. Mazouni D'epartement d'Informatique Ecole Polytechnique F'ed'erale de Lausanne CH-1015, Suisse e-mail: [email protected] GARF is an object-oriented system intended to support high level and modular programming of reliable distributed applications. GARF provides a distributed shared memory abstraction, but does not enforce any particular consistency criterion. GARF rather offers an extensible library of consistency criteria. The programmer can bind a specific criterion to each object, according to its use and semantics. This flexible approach enables to increase availability of objects of which behaviors do not require strong consistency guarantees. 1 Introduction Shared memory is an attractive programming paradigm to represent communication among distributed computing entities. It has been widely used for many years, and is at a higher abstraction level than the message passing paradigm. Providing the shared memory abstraction on top of..
Scaling up qualitative data: with Professor Ken Benoit
No full textProfessor Benoit is the Principal Investigator in an ERC funded project QUANTESS developing innovative methods for the quantitative analysis of textual data in the social sciences. He is the co-author with Paul Nulty of the R software package for text analysis “quanteda”, and working on a book Quantitative Text Analysis Using R covering methods for managing, processing, and analysing textual data using the R programming language. He has taught quantitative text analysis extensively and has published research in this area targeting both methodology and political science applications
Tuple Space Middleware for Wireless Networks
Get PDFWireless networks define a very challenging scenario for the application programmer. Indeed, the fluidity inherent in the wireless media cannot be entirely masked at the communication layer: issues such as disconnection and a continuously changing execution context most often must be dealt with according to the application logic. Appropriate abstractions, usually provided as part of a middleware, are therefore required to support and simplify the programming task
Thesium philosophicarum fasciculus
No full textquem ... praeside ... Io. Friderico Benoit ... publicè tutabitur Ioh. Rodolphus Kochius, HBernas, phil. stud. author & respondens, ad diem 5. Martii ...Diss. Hohe Schule Bern, 171
Fables de La Fontaine: Une Anthologie proposée par Benoit Marchon
No full textHere are forty-three fables presented by an artist I have enjoyed twice elsewhere. The book's unusual shape (6½ x 10¾) is the first clue that it is going to present traditional material in a fresh way. Almost every presentation involves two pages and clever positioning of a few key images. GA (10-11) presents an ant with a sack of grain on his back marching across the page above a grasshopper moving upwards with a guitar on his back: character, load, and direction are all different. FC presents a cheese with its owner's name struck through and changed from Corbeau to Renard (12-13). WS shows a stork with a scissors for a head beside an x-ray of a wolf's digestive tract with the bone lodged down the throat (22-23). The spilt milk of MM is blotting out drawings of hens, pig, and cow (30-31). The surreal style fits the approach perfectly. Sometimes I have no idea why an object is presented the way Jarrie presents it; other times it is perfect. The bull in OF holds the frog by a tether as though the latter were a helium-filled balloon (32-33). Maybe best of all is The Rat and the Elephant (50-51). The elephant is segmented to make room for the text. Between the elephant's legs, mostly hidden from us, a cat reaches out a paw for the minuscule rat under the elephant's big belly. For sheer fun, try The Lion Defeated by a Man (78-79). The book has a place-holding ribbon, a short life of both La Fontaine and of Jarrie, and a helpful glossary of unusual language in the fables. This book fulfills its rear cover's promise of a fresh entry into a fabulous zoological park. Bravo, Jarrie!This is a hardbound book (hard cover)Language note: FrenchJean de La Fontaine; Benoit Marcho
Flexible Protocol Composition in Bast
No full textThis paper presents Bast, an object-oriented library of reliable distributed protocols. We show how Bast can be used to build fault-tolerant distributed applications, and how new protocols can be added to it. We discuss some distributed protocol design issues and the way these issues are circumvented in Bast. We briefly describe our Smalltalk and Java implementations of Bast, together with some performance results. 1 Introduction Reliable distributed applications are challenging to build, because programmers have to deal with many complex issues, e.g., reliable communication, failure detection, replication management, transaction management, etc. Each of these issues actually corresponds to a distributed problem to solve, and programmers have to face a distributed problems "jungle" (Figure 1) to choose the right protocol for the right problem, or to compose existing protocols and make them work together. Bast 1 is an extensible object-oriented library of reliable distributed pr..
L’écriture impliquée: nouvelle forme de l’engagement littéraire chez fatou diome, Léonora Miano et Marie Ndiaye
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Reason: Author requested U of Illinois access only (OA after 2yrs) in Vireo ETD systemCette thèse propose d’expliciter les manières dont l’implication se manifeste dans les textes de Fatou Diome, Léonora Miano et Marie NDiaye. Dans un contexte français de résurgence de l’engagement littéraire, elle exprime des manières d’intervenir par l’écriture sur des problèmes sociaux ou politiques qui traversent la société. L’originalité de notre thèse tient à l’intérêt d’avoir privilégié le contexte d’écriture de ces auteures. En effet, la critique des littératures africaines francophones lie l’émergence de nouvelles formes d’écriture, à partir de années quatre-vingt, à la présence des auteurs de cette littérature dans un espace qui n’est plus africain mais essentiellement parisien. Le choix de l’implication nous permet d’inscrire les écrivaines choisies pour notre analyse dans un lieu témoin de pratiques d’écritures nouvelles qui montrent des préoccupations qui ne sont plus uniquement d’ordre esthétique.Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2020-05-01The student, Malyoune Benoit, accepted the attached license on 2018-04-18 at 07:03.The student, Malyoune Benoit, submitted this Dissertation for approval on 2018-04-18 at 07:11.This Dissertation was approved for publication on 2018-04-18 at 17:39.DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #12334 on 2018-08-31 at 17:20:24U of I Only Restriction Lifted for Item 107270 on 2020-09-05T09:15:26Z
Abstract Using the Strategy Design Pattern to Compose Reliable Distributed Protocols
No full textReliable distributed systems involve many complex protocols. In this context, protocol composition is a central concept, because it allows the reuse of robust protocol implementations. In this paper, we describe how the Strategy pattern has been recursively used to support protocol composition in the BAST framework. We also discuss design alternatives that have been applied in other existing frameworks.
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