Reconfiguration in Argus

Early work on reconfiguration of distributed applications was done as part of the Argus project at MIT. The authors review that work, examine the lessons that they learned, and relate their Argus experience to current plans for building Thor: a distributed, highly-available object database management system. They emphasize the type system, communication model, and persistence model of Argus, and the interaction of those models with reconfiguration requirements.<
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