Distributed Computing

Sense of direction in distributed computing.- Top-down considerations on distributed computing.- Inter-task co-ordination in long-lived distributed applications.- Seamlessly selecting the best copy from internet-wide replicated web servers.- Wait-free synchronization in quantum-based multiprogrammed systems.- Computing in totally anonymous asynchronous shared memory systems.- Transient fault detectors.- Directed virtual path layouts in ATM networks.- A decision-theoretic approach to reliable message delivery.- Propagation and leader election in a multihop broadcast environment.- The arrow distributed directory protocol.- Efficient Byzantine agreement secure against general adversaries.- Long-lived, fast, waitfree renaming with optimal name space and high throughput.- The compactness of interval routing for almost all graphs.- A wait-free classification of loop agreement tasks.- A stabilizing repair timer.- Java: Memory consistency and process coordination.- A complete and constant time wait-free implementation of CAS from LL/SC and vice versa.- Failure detection and consensus in the crash-recovery model.- A more committed quorum-based three phase commit protocol.- Multicast group communication as a base for a load-balancing replicated data service.- Efficient deadlock-free multi-dimensional interval routing in interconnection networks.- A new protocol for efficient cooperative transversal Web caching.- Fairness of shared objects.- Optimistic Atomic Broadcast.- Approximate agreement with mixed mode faults: Algorithm and lower bound.- Using remote access histories for thread scheduling in distributed shared memory systems.- The Bancomat problem: An example of resource allocation in a partitionable asynchronous system.- Lifetime based consistency protocols for distributed objects.- Deriving a scalable algorithm for mutual exclusion.- OFC: A distributed fossil-collection algorithm for Time-Warp.