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The emerging discipline of responsive systems demands fault-tolerant and real-time performance in uniprocessor, parallel, and distributed computing environments. A new proposal for a measure of responsiveness is presented, followed by an introduction of a consensus-based framework and model for responsive computing. The model, called CONCORDS (CONsensus/COmputation for Responsive Distributed Systems), is based on the integration of various forms of consensus and computation (management, then progress or recovery). The consensus tasks include clock synchronization, phase initialization and termination, diagnosis, checkpointing, resource allocation, and scheduling.
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Malek, M. (1994). A Consensus-Based Framework and Model for the Design of Responsive Computing Systems. In: Foundations of Dependable Computing. The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science, vol 283. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-585-27377-8_1
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