Principles of Distributed Systems: 13th International Conference, Opodis 2009, Nîmes, France, December 15-18, 2009. Proceedings

Invited Talks.- Transactional Memory Today: A Status Report.- Navigating the Web 2.0 with Gossple.- Distributed Scheduling.- Transactional Scheduling for Read-Dominated Workloads.- Performance Evaluation of Work Stealing for Streaming Applications.- Not All Fair Probabilistic Schedulers Are Equivalent.- Brief Announcement: Relay: A Cache-Coherence Protocol for Distributed Transactional Memory.- Distributed Robotics.- Byzantine Convergence in Robot Networks: The Price of Asynchrony.- Deaf, Dumb, and Chatting Asynchronous Robots.- Synchronization Helps Robots to Detect Black Holes in Directed Graphs.- Fault and Failure Detection.- The Fault Detection Problem.- The Minimum Information about Failures for Solving Non-local Tasks in Message-Passing Systems.- Enhanced Fault-Tolerance through Byzantine Failure Detection.- Wireless and Social Networks.- Decentralized Polling with Respectable Participants.- Efficient Power Utilization in Multi-radio Wireless Ad Hoc Networks.- Adversarial Multiple Access Channel with Individual Injection Rates.- Synchronization.- NB-FEB: A Universal Scalable Easy-to-Use Synchronization Primitive for Manycore Architectures.- Gradient Clock Synchronization Using Reference Broadcasts.- Brief Announcement: Communication-Efficient Self-stabilizing Protocols for Spanning-Tree Construction.- Storage Systems.- On the Impact of Serializing Contention Management on STM Performance.- On the Efficiency of Atomic Multi-reader, Multi-writer Distributed Memory.- Abortable Fork-Linearizable Storage.- Distributed Agreement.- On the Computational Power of Shared Objects.- Weak Synchrony Models and Failure Detectors for Message Passing (k-)Set Agreement.- Unifying Byzantine Consensus Algorithms with Weak Interactive Consistency.- Distributed Algorithms.- Safe and Eventually Safe: Comparing Self-stabilizing and Non-stabilizing Algorithms on a Common Ground.- Proactive Fortification of Fault-Tolerant Services.- Robustness of the Rotor-router Mechanism.- Brief Annoucement: Analysis of an Optimal Bit Complexity Randomised Distributed Vertex Colouring Algorithm.- Brief Annoucement: Distributed Swap Edges Computation for Minimum Routing Cost Spanning Trees.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3642108768
• ISBN13: 9783642108761
• Release Date: December 2009
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 373 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.3"