Cloud developers have to build applications that are resilient failures and interruptions. We advocate for a fault-tolerant programming model the cloud based on actors, retry orchestration, tail calls. This builds upon persistent data stores message queues readily available cloud. Retry orchestration not only guarantees (1) failed actor invocations will be retried but also (2) completed never r...

In 2020, as expected, standard-setting activities of the main non-governmental actors actively engaged in field disaster risk management mostly dealt with COVID-19 pandemic that gradually hit almost every country world over year. This section will focus on ‘normative’ activity led – or supported by three NGOs clusters/networks: Active Learning Network for Accountability and Performance Humanita...

Composability and deadlock-freedom are important properties that are stated for transactional memory (TM). Commonly, the Semantics of TM requires linearization of transactions. It turns out that linearization of transactions that have cyclic communication brings incomposability and deadlock. Inspired from TM and Actors, this work proposes Transactors that provide facilities of isolation from TM...