Profiling Membership in the PCAOB's Standing Advisory Group

Clinical Standards Advisory Group.

to regional and national centres. Your investigations will consider, but not be limited to, the effects of the NHS and Community Care Act 1990 in a representative sample of NHS regions and boards. The four services you have selected are neonatal intensive care; cystic fibrosis; childhood leukaemia; and coronary artery bypass grafting." As for all its projects, the Clinical Standards Advisory Gr...

The Timewheel Group Membership Protocol

We describe a group membership protocol, called the timewheel group membership protocol, for a timed asynchronous distributed system. This protocol is a part of the timewheel group communication service that supports multiple group communication semantics simultaneously. The timewheel group membership protocol is unique in several respects. First, it has been designed for a timed asynchronous d...

Group membership in the epidemic style

Existing group membership mechanisms provide consistent views of membership changes. However, they require heavyweight synchronous multicast protocols. We present a new lightweight group membership mechanism that allows temporary inconsistencies in membership views. This mechanism uses epidemic communication techniques to ensure that all group members eventually converge to a consistent view of...

Work Group Membership

Research Proposal: Group Membership