EOS: Exactly-Once E-Service Middleware

Summary: EOS provides transparent exactly-once semantics for multi-tier Web requests despite timeouts, failures, and retries. Its browser and Apache/PHP middleware modifications jointly ensure user-visible effects and backend updates occur exactly once. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: 9114
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2002
Pagerank: -
Overall Rank: 13,987 | 4.04%
DOI: 10.1016/B978-155860869-6/50104-9

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Authors

1. German Shegalov (University of Saarland)
2. Gerhard Weikum (University of Saarland)
3. Roger Barga (Microsoft)
4. David Lomet (Microsoft)

BibTeX Citation

@article{shegalov_vldb02,
        title = {{EOS: Exactly-Once E-Service Middleware}},
        author = {Shegalov, German and Weikum, Gerhard and Barga, Roger and Lomet, David},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '02},
        doi = {10.1016/B978-155860869-6/50104-9},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-155860869-6/50104-9},
        year = {2002}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
13,838	EOS^2: Unstoppable Stateful PHP	2006	VLDB	-

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