ACM Computing Surveys: Vol. 13, No. 2, June 1981

by Adele J. Goldberg, Walter H. Kohler, Philip A. Bernstein

The three papers in this issue of Computing Surveys deal with the problem of designing reliable decentralized computer systems. This problem can be looked at from at least two the synchronization of access to shared data, and the recovery of the state of the data after system failure.

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Published January 1, 1981