DISC2001 Contents Contacts

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Revised DISC 2001 Program

Tue, Oct 2

17:30 - 19:00

REGISTRATION

19:00 -  WELCOME RECEPTION
 

Wed, Oct 3

08:00 - 09:00

REGISTRATION

09:00 - 09:15

WELCOME

09:15 - 10:15

Invited Lecture, Gerard LeLann

10:15 - 10:35

BREAK

10:35 - 11:50

Session 1

 

10:35 

Yong-Jik Kim and James Anderson

A Time Complexity Bound for Adaptive Mutual Exclusion

Winner of Best Student Paper Award

 

11:00 

Yuh-Jzer Joung

Quorum-Based Algorithms for Group Mutual Exclusion

 

11:25 

Paolo Boldi and Sebastiano Vigna

An Effective Characterization of Computability in Anonymou Networks

11:50 - 13:50

LUNCH

13:50 - 14:40

Session 2

 

13:50

John Douceur and Roger Wattenhofer

Competitive Hill-Climbing Strategies for Replica Placement in a Distributed File System

 

14:15

Dahlia Malkhi, Elan Pavlov and Yaron Sella

Optimal Unconditional Information Diffusion

14:40 - 15:00

BREAK

15:00 - 16:15

Session 3

 

15:00

Neeraj Mittal and Vijay Garg

Computation Slicing: Techniques and Theory

 

15:25

Ricardo Jimenez-Peris, marta Patino-Martinez, Gustavo Alonso and Sergio Arevalo

A Low-Latency Non-Blocking Commit Service

 

15:50

Marcos Aguilera, Carole Delporte-Gallet, Hugues Fauconnier and Sam Toueg

Stable Leader Election

16:30

BUSINESS MEETING

 

Thu, Oct 4

08:00 - 09:00 REGISTRATION

09:00 - 10:15

Session 4

 

09:00

Zhiying Liang and Lisa Higham

Self-Stabilizing Minimum Spanning Tree Construction on Message-Passing Networks

 

09:25 

Maurice Herlihy and Srikanta Tirthapura

Self Stabilizing Distributed Queuing

 

09:50 

Faith Fich and Colette Johnen

A Space Optimal, Deterministic, Self-Stabilizing, Leader Election Algorithm for Unidirectional Rings

10:15 - 10:35

BREAK

10:35 - 11:50

Session 5

 

10:35

Marie Duflot, Laurent Fribourg and Claudine Picaronny

Randomized Finite-State Distributed Algorithms As Markov Chains

 

11:00

Michiko Inoue, Shinya Umetani, Toshimitsu Masuzawa and Hideo Fujiwara

Adaptive Long-Lived O(k^2)-Renaming with O(k^2) Steps

 

11:25

Maurice Herlihy, Sergio Rajsbaum and Mark Tuttle

A New Synchronous Lower Bound for Set Agreement

11:50 - 13:50

LUNCH

13:50 - 14:40

Session 6, Brief Announcements

 

13:50

Mikel Larrea, Antonio Fernandez and Sergio Arevalo

On the Impossibility of Implementing Perpetual Failure in Partially Synchronous Systems

 

14.00

Felix Gaertner and Stefan Pleisch

(Im)Possibilities of Predicate Detection in Crash-Affected Systems

 

14:10

Felix Gaertner and Hagen Voelzer

Defining Redundancy in Fault-Tolerant Systems

 

14:20

Ernesto Jimenez, Antonio Fernandez and Vicente Cholvi

A Parameterized Algorithm that Implements Sequential, Causal and Cache Memory Consistency

 

14:30

Sen Moriya and Tadashi Araragi

Dynamic Snapshot Algorithm and Partial Rollback Algorithm for Internet Agents

14:40 - 15:00

BREAK

15:00 - 16:15

Session 7

 

15.00 

Chryssis Georgiou, Alexander Russell and Alex Shvartsman

The Complexity of Synchronous Iterative Do-All with Crashes

 

15:25 

Stefan Dobrev, Paola Flocchini, Giuseppe Prencipe and Nicolo Santoro

Mobile Search for a Black Hole in Anonymous Rings

 

15:50 

Jaap-Henk Hoepman

Randomised Mutual Search

17:30 - 

TOUR AND BANQUET

 

Fri, Oct 5

08:30 - 09:00 REGISTRATION

09:00 - 10:00

Invited Lecture, David Peleg (slides)

10:00 - 10:20

BREAK

10:20 - 11:35

Session 8

 

10:20 

David Peleg and Uri Pincas

The Average Hop Count Measure for Virtual Path Layouts

 

10:45 

Lali Barriere, Pierre Fraigniaud, Evangelos Kranakis and Danny Krizanc

Efficient Routing in Networks with Long Range Contacts

 

11:10 

I. Chatzigiannakis, S. Nikoletseas and P. Spirakis

An Efficient Communication Strategy for Ad-hoc Mobile Networks

11:35 - 11:45

BREAK (no coffee)

11:45 - 13:00

Session 9

 

11:45

Timothy Harris

A Pragmatic Implementation of Non-Blocking Linked Lists

 

12:10

Ted Herman and Toshimitsu Masuzawa

Stabilizing Replicated Search Trees

 

12:35

Panagiota Fatourou and Maurice Herlihy

Adding Networks

 

 

 

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Last updated: 27-12-2001 18:00

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