Future Directions in Distributed Computing

This book presents a collection of 31 revised reviewed papers developed from contributions presented at the International Workshop on Future Directions in Distributed Computing, held in Bertinoro, Italy in June 2002. Also included are 7 particularly commissioned invited papers to round the coverage of relevant topics and four section surveys.

Practical Impact of Group Communication Theory.- On the Impact of Academic Distributed Systems Research on Industrial Practice.- Using Error-Correcting Codes to Solve Distributed Agreement Problems: A Future Direction in Distributed Computing?.- Lower Bounds for Asynchronous Consensus.- Designing Algorithms for Dependent Process Failures.- Comparing the Atomic Commitment and Consensus Problems.- Open Questions on Consensus Performance inWell-Behaved Runs.- Challenges in Evaluating Distributed Algorithms.- Towards Robust Optimistic Approaches.- Towards a Practical Approach to Confidential Byzantine Fault Tolerance.- Modeling Complexity in Secure Distributed Computing.- Communication and Data Sharing for Dynamic Distributed Systems.- Dissecting Distributed Computations.- Ordering vs Timeliness: Two Facets of Consistency?.- WAIF:Web of Asynchronous Information Filters.- The Importance of Aggregation.- Dynamic Lookup Networks.- The Surprising Power of Epidemic Communication.- Topology-Aware Routing in Structured Peer-to-Peer Overlay Networks.- Uncertainty and Predictability: Can They Be Reconciled?.- Fuzzy Group Membership.- Toward Self-Organizing, Self-Repairing and Resilient Distributed Systems.- Dynamically Provisioning Distributed Systems to Meet Target Levels of Performance, Availability, and Data Quality.- Database Replication Based on Group Communication: Implementation Issues.- The Evolution of Publish/Subscribe Communication Systems.- Naming and Integrity: Self-Verifying Data in Peer-to-Peer Systems.- Spread Spectrum Storage with Mnemosyne.- Replication Strategies for Highly Available Peer-to-Peer Storage.- A Data-Centric Approach for Scalable State Machine Replication.- Scaling Optimistic Replication.- Building a Bridge between Distributed Systems Theory and Commercial Practice.- Holistic Operations in Large-Scale Sensor Network Systems: A Probabilistic Peer-to-Peer Approach.- Challenges in Making Pervasive Systems Dependable.- Towards Dependable Networks of Mobile Arbitrary Devices - Diagnosis and Scalability.- Technology Challenges for the Global Real-Time Enterprise.- Middleware for Supporting Inter-organizational Interactions.- Hosting of Libre Software Projects: A Distributed Peer-to-Peer Approach.- System Support for Pervasive Applications.- Technology Challenges for the Global Real-Time Enterprise.- Middleware for Supporting Inter-organizational Interactions.- Hosting of Libre Software Projects: A Distributed Peer-to-Peer Approach.- System Support for Pervasive Applications.