Today I am going to exercise. Finally! I plan to leave my offi ce early and go to the gym on my way home. I just need to complete a few telephone calls and I will be on my way. Suddenly, the emergency department calls. Mrs S. is back with congestive heart failure and will likely need admission. There goes my new resolution. By the time I leave the emergency department, it is time to go home, ha...

Within a generation leisure time may loom as large in our lives a5 work does now. Michael Dower, director of the Dartington Amenity Research Trust, says that planning must start now if the space an^ facilities needed to enjoy leisure are going to be available. suppose you had a five-hour working day, a four-day weekend , a three-month annual holiday. How would you use your leisure? Within a gen...

RelaX (Reliable distributed applications support on UNIX) is a portable and extensible system software layer on top of UNIX-like operating system kernels supporting reliable distributed applications by a generalized transaction mechanism. The distributed transaction mechanism relieves each programmer of dealing explicitly with error recovery and concurrency control in every distributed applicat...