DISC '98
(formerly WDAG)

12th International Symposium on DIStributed Computing


Tentative Conference Program

Wednesday, September 23rd
17:00 - 20:00 Reception
 
Thursday, September 24th
9:00 - 9:15 Opening
9:15 - 10:15 Keynote Talk - Nicola Santoro (postscript)
10:15 - 10:35 Coffee Break
10:35 - 11:55 Session 1
Directed Virtual Path Layouts in ATM Networks, Jean-Claude Bermond, Nausica Marlin, David Peleg and Stephane Parennes.
Propagation and Leader Election in a Multihop Broadcast Environment, Israel Cidon and Osnat Mokryn.
The Compactness of Interval Routing for Almost All Graphs, Cyril Gavoille and David Peleg (postscript).
Efficient Deadlock-free Multi-dimentional Interval Routing in Interconnection Networks, R. Kralovic , B. Rovan, P. Ruzicka and P. Stefankovic (postscript).
11:55 - 12:20 Coffee Break
12:20 - 13:20 Session 2
Transient Fault Detectors, Joffroy Beauquier, Sylvie Delaet , Shlomi Dolev and Sabestien Tixeuil (postscript).
A Decision - Theoretic Approach to Reliable Message Delivery, Francis Chu and Joseph Halpern (postscript).
A Stabilizing Repair Time, T. Herman (postscript).
13:20 - 15:05 Lunch Break
15:05 - 16:25 Session 3
Efficient Byzantine Agreement Secure Against General Adversaries, Matthias Fitzi and Ueli Maurer (postscript).
Failure Detection and Consensus in the Crash-Recovery Model, Marcos Kawazoe Aguilera , Wei Chen and Sam Toueg (postscript).
Optimistic Atomic Broadcast, Fernando Pedone and Andre Schiper (postscript).
Approximate Agreement with Mixed Model Faults: Algorithm and Lower Bound, Richard Plunkett and Alan Fekete (postscript).
Businness Meeting
Rump Session - Poster Session
 
Friday, September 25th
9:15 - 10:15 Keynote Talk - Santosh Shrivastava (MS-OFFICE word document)
10:15 - 10:35 Coffee Break
10:35 - 11:55 Session 4
Using Remote Access Histories for Thread Scheduling in Distributed Shared Memory Systems, Assaf Schuster and Lea Shalev (postscript).
Lifetime Based Consistency Protocols for Distributed Objects, Francisco J. Torres-Rojas, Mustaque Ahamad and Michel Raynal (postscript).
The Arrow Directory Protocol, Michael Demmer and Maurice Herlihy (postscript).
OFC : A Distributed Fossil-Collection Algorithm for Time-Warp, C.H.Young , N.B.Abu-Ghazaleh and P.A. Wilsey (postscript).
11:55 - 12:20 Coffee Break
12:20 - 13:20 Session 5
Computing in Totally Anonymous Asynchronous Shared Memory Systems, Hagit Attiya , Alla Gorbach and Shlomo Moran (postscript).
Fairness of Shared Objects, Michael Merritt and Gadi Taubenfeld (postscript).
Deriving a Scalable Algorithm for Mutual Exclusion, Yih-Kuen Tsay (postscript).
13:20 - 15:00 Lunch Break
Andros Tour
Conference Dinner
 
Saturday, September 26th
9:15 - 10:15 Keynote talk- Yoram Moses (postscript)
10:15 - 10:35 Coffee Break
10:35 - 11:55 Session 6
Long-lived, Fast, Waitfree Renaming with Optimal Name Space and High Throughput, Wayne Eberly , Lisa Higham and Jolanta Warpechowska- Gruca (postscript).
A Complete Classification of Wait-Free Loop Agreement Tasks, Maurice Herlihy and Sergio Rajsbaum (postscript).
A Complete and Constant Time Wait-Free Implementation of CAS from LL/SC and Vice Versa, Prasad Jayanti (postscript).
Wait– Free Synchronization in Quantum-Based Multiprogrammed Systems, James H. Anderson, Rohit Jait and David Ott (postscript).
11:55 - 12:20 Coffee Break
12:20 - 13:20 Session 7
A more Commited Quorum-Based Three Phase Commit Protocol, T. Kempster, C. Stirling and P. Thanisch.
Multicast Group Communication as a base for a Load-Balancing Replicated Data Service, Roger Khazan, Alan Fekete and Nancy Lynch.
The Bancomat Problem: An Example of Resource Allocation in a Partitionable Asynchronous System, Jeremy Sussman and Keith Marzullo (postscript).
13:20 - 15:00 Lunch Break
15:00 - 16:20 Session 8
Seamlessly Selecting the Best Copy from Internet–Wide Replicated Web Servers, Yair Amir, Alec Peterson and David Shaw (postscript).
Java: Memory Consistency and Process Coordination, Lisa Higham and Jalal Kawash (postscript).
A New Protocol for Efficient Transversal Web Caching, Jean Marc Menaud , Valerie Issarny and Michel Banatre (postscript).
Conference Adjourn

 


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