Distributed Computing

The 2009 Edsger W. Dijkstra Prize in Distributed Computing.- The 2009 Edsger W. Dijkstra Prize in Distributed Computing.- Michel Raynal and Shmuel Zaks 60th Birthday Symposium.- Computing, Observing, Controlling, Checkpointing: Symbiosis Is Even Better Than Agreement!.- What Agreement Problems Owe Michel.- Shmuel Zaks - The Early Years: A Combinatorialist in Distributed Computing.- Shmuel Zaks - The Mathematician, Computer Scientist and Personality.- Award Nominees (Session 2B).- The Disagreement Power of an Adversary.- New Bounds for the Controller Problem.- On Set Consensus Numbers.- The Abstract MAC Layer.- Randomization Can Be a Healer: Consensus with Dynamic Omission Failures.- Transactional Memory (Session 1A).- Interrupting Snapshots and the Java Size() Method.- Elastic Transactions.- Brief Announcement: Transactional Scheduling for Read-Dominated Workloads.- Shared Memory (Session 1B).- Tight Group Renaming on Groups of Size g Is Equivalent to g-Consensus.- The RedBlue Adaptive Universal Constructions.- Help When Needed, But No More: Efficient Read/Write Partial Snapshot.- Contention-Sensitive Data Structures and Algorithms.- Brief Announcement: Acceleration by Contention for Shared Memory Mutual Exclusion Algorithms.- Brief Announcement: Incremental Component-Based Modeling, Verification, and Performance Evaluation of Distributed Reset.- Distributed and Local Graph Algorithms (Session 1C).- Local Computation of Nearly Additive Spanners.- A Local 2-Approximation Algorithm for the Vertex Cover Problem.- Distributed Discovery of Large Near-Cliques.- Distributed Fractional Packing and Maximum Weighted b-Matching via Tail-Recursive Duality.- Brief Announcement: Decidable Graph Languages by Mediated Population Protocols.- Brief Announcement: Towards Secured Distributed Polling in Social Networks.- Modeling Issues (Session 1D).- What Can Be Observed Locally?.- At-Most-Once Semantics in Asynchronous Shared Memory.- Nonblocking Algorithms and Backward Simulation.- Brief Announcement: Efficient Model Checking of Fault-Tolerant Distributed Protocols Using Symmetry Reduction.- Brief Announcement: Dynamic FTSS in Asynchronous Systems: The Case of Unison.- Game Theory (Session 2A).- Dynamics in Network Interaction Games.- Brief Announcement: Cloud Computing Games: Pricing Services of Large Data Centers.- Failure Detectors (Session 2C).- On the Existence of Weakest Failure Detectors for Mutual Exclusion and k-Exclusion.- Crash-Quiescent Failure Detection.- The Price of Anonymity: Optimal Consensus Despite Asynchrony, Crash and Anonymity.- Brief Announcement: On Implementing Omega Efficiently in the Crash-Recovery Model.- Brief Announcement: The Minimum Failure Detector for Non-Local Tasks in Message-Passing Systems.- Brief Announcement: Weak Synchrony Models and Failure Detectors for Message Passing (k-)Set Agreement.- From Theory to Practice (Session 3A).- Brief Announcement Zab: A Practical Totally Ordered Broadcast Protocol.- Graph Algorithms and Routing (Session 3B).- Compact Multicast Routing.- Compact Routing in Power-Law Graphs.- Virtual Ring Routing Trends.- A New Self-stabilizing Minimum Spanning Tree Construction with Loop-Free Property.- Euler Tour Lock-In Problem in the Rotor-Router Model.- Consensus and Byzantine Agreement (Session 3C).- Optimum Simultaneous Consensus for General Omissions Is Equivalent to an NP Oracle.- On the Number of Synchronous Rounds Sufficient for Authenticated Byzantine Agreement.- From Almost Everywhere to Everywhere: Byzantine Agreement with Bits.- Brief Announcement: A Leader-free ByzantineConsensus Algorithm.- Radio Networks (Session 3D).- Efficient k-Shot Broadcasting in Radio Networks.- Keeping Mobile Robot Swarms Connected.- Consensus and Mutual Exclusion in a Multiple Access Channel.- Brief Announcement: Efficient Utilization of Multiple Interfaces in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks.- Brief Announcement: The Speed of Broadcasting in Random Networks - Density Does Not Matter.