Innis, Claudine2008-12-022008-12-022008-12-02https://hdl.handle.net/2139/1564enPlease contact the West Indiana Division at the University of the West Indies,St.Augustine in order to view the full thesis. Contact: wimail@sta.uwi.eduAlgorithmsElectronic data processing -- Distributed processingJava (Computer program language)Programming languages (Electronic computers)Computer algorithmsCombining optimistic and pessimistic algorithms to process updates to replicas in a distributed system: a JAVA prototypeThesis