Birman, Kenneth P. <br/><br/>
Reliable distributed systems :  technologies, Web services, and applications  
/ Kenneth P. Birman. 
 - New York :  Springer,  2005 
 - xxxi, 668 p. :  ill. ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/>1.	Basic distributed computing technologies <br/>2.	Fundamentals <br/>3.	Basic communication services <br/>4.	High assurance communication <br/>5.	Remote procedure calls and the client/server model <br/>6.	Styles of client/server computing <br/>7.	Corba: the common object request broker architecture <br/>8.	System support for fast client/server communication <br/>9.	Web technologies <br/>10.	The world wide web <br/>11.	Major web technologies <br/>12.	Web services <br/>13.	Related internet technologies <br/>14.	Platform technologies <br/>15.	Reliable distributed computing <br/>16.	How and why computer systems fail <br/>17.	Overcoming failures in a distributed system <br/>18.	Dynamic membership <br/>19.	Group communication systems <br/>20.	Point to point and multi-group considerations <br/>21.	The virtual synchrony execution model <br/>22.	Consistency in distributed systems <br/>23.	Applications of reliability techniques <br/>24.	Retrofitting reliability into complex systems <br/>25.	Software architectures for group communication <br/>26.	Related technologies <br/>27.	Security options for distributed settings <br/>28.	Clock synchronization and synchronous systems <br/>29.	Transactional systems <br/>30.	Peer-to-peer systems and probabilistic protocols <br/>31.	Prospects for building highly assured web services <br/>32.	Other distributed and transactional systems.<br/> 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0387215093 (alk. paper) 9780387215099 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Electronic data processing--Distributed processing--Reliability.<br/>Computer networks--Reliability.<br/>Web services--Reliability.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>004.6  / B6193