Future Directions in Distributed Computing [electronic resource] : Research and Position Papers /

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.

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. The papers are organized in topical sections on foundations of distributed systems, exploring next-generation communication infrastrucutures and applications, challenges in distributed information and data management, and challenges and opportunities in applications of distributed computing technologies. All in all, the book is a unique account and proposed agenda of issues to be addressed in future research in distributed computing.