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Future Work

An endless amount of future work can be suggested, but to name a few:

• The environment used in this thesis has been very simple and could easily be broadened or generalized, e.g., multiple servers, peer-to-peer communications, etc. There are many open roads.
• I think that it will be possible to have greater (better) utilization of TACO's QoS facilities. Maybe it would be a good idea to let applications specify both time bound and quality of service parameters. Better integration of $\mathcal{P}$$e$$\mathcal{S}$$t$$\mathcal{O}$ and TACO is a certainly worth looking at.
• Other consistency measures than time might be considered; the number of updates to a file, the difference (in terms of contents) between a replica and the primary copy, .... Notions of fidelity as in the Odyssey [43] system might also be included in the model.
• An implementation of the suggested transactional facility, i.e., AMIGOS phase three.
• An investigation of whether the ideas from this thesis make sense in an object-oriented environment, i.e., AMIGOS phase four and five.

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