Listings, Leases, and Liabilities

Shtolo – Converting STEP Short Listings to Annotated Listings

A STEP Application Protocol includes an AIM EXPRESS Annotated Listing. An Annotated Listing is created by combining the Short Listing and any objects from STEP Integrated Resource Parts that are referenced from the Short Listing either directly or indirectly. A number of transformations are performed on the resulting model, which is then formatted and printed. In the past, this process has been...

Leases for Consistency in Large -

This article introduces volume leases as a mechanism for providing server-driven cache consistency for large-scale, geographically distributed networks. Volume leases retain the good performance, fault tolerance, and server scalability of the semantically weaker client-driven protocols that are now used on the web. Volume leases are a variation of object leases, which were originally designed f...

Texas Hunting Leases: Statewide and Regional Summary

The selling of hunting leases by private landowners has been regulated by the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) since 1925. However, a comprehensive examination of leasing activity and wildlife management practices used by landowners who lease lands for hunting has never been conducted. This study had three objectives: (1) to develop procedures to regularly monitor trends and changes i...

PaxosLease: Diskless Paxos for Leases

This paper describes PaxosLease, a distributed algorithm for lease negotiation. PaxosLease is based on Paxos, but does not require disk writes or clock synchrony. PaxosLease is used for master lease negotation in the open-source Keyspace replicated key-value store.

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