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Distributed Computing

24th International Symposium, DISC 2010, Cambridge, MA, USA, September 13-15, 2010, Proceedings

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 6343)

Part of the book sub series: Theoretical Computer Science and General Issues (LNTCS)

Conference series link(s): DISC: International Symposium on Distributed Computing

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Table of contents (50 papers)

  1. Front Matter

  2. The 2010 Edsger W. Dijkstra Prize in Distributed Computing

    1. The 2010 Edsger W. Dijkstra Prize in Distributed Computing

      • Marcos K. Aguilera, Michel Raynal
      Pages 1-2
  3. Invited Lecture I: Consensus (Session 1a)

    1. The Power of Abstraction

      • Barbara Liskov
      Pages 3-3
    2. Fast Asynchronous Consensus with Optimal Resilience

      • Ittai Abraham, Marcos K. Aguilera, Dahlia Malkhi
      Pages 4-19
  4. Transactions (Session 1b)

    1. Transactions as the Foundation of a Memory Consistency Model

      • Luke Dalessandro, Michael L. Scott, Michael F. Spear
      Pages 20-34
    2. The Cost of Privatization

      • Hagit Attiya, Eshcar Hillel
      Pages 35-49
    3. Window-Based Greedy Contention Management for Transactional Memory

      • Gokarna Sharma, Brett Estrade, Costas Busch
      Pages 64-78
  5. Shared Memory Services and Concurrency (Session 1c)

    1. Scalable Flat-Combining Based Synchronous Queues

      • Danny Hendler, Itai Incze, Nir Shavit, Moran Tzafrir
      Pages 79-93
    2. Fast Randomized Test-and-Set and Renaming

      • Dan Alistarh, Hagit Attiya, Seth Gilbert, Andrei Giurgiu, Rachid Guerraoui
      Pages 94-108
    3. Concurrent Computing and Shellable Complexes

      • Maurice Herlihy, Sergio Rajsbaum
      Pages 109-123
  6. Brief Announcements I (Session 1d)

    1. Brief Announcement: Hybrid Time-Based Transactional Memory

      • Pascal Felber, Christof Fetzer, Patrick Marlier, Martin Nowack, Torvald Riegel
      Pages 124-126
  7. Wireless Networks (Session 1e)

    1. What Is the Use of Collision Detection (in Wireless Networks)?

      • Johannes Schneider, Roger Wattenhofer
      Pages 133-147
    2. Deploying Wireless Networks with Beeps

      • Alejandro Cornejo, Fabian Kuhn
      Pages 148-162
    3. Distributed Contention Resolution in Wireless Networks

      • Thomas Kesselheim, Berthold Vöcking
      Pages 163-178
    4. A Jamming-Resistant MAC Protocol for Multi-Hop Wireless Networks

      • Andrea Richa, Christian Scheideler, Stefan Schmid, Jin Zhang
      Pages 179-193
  8. Brief Announcements II (Session 1f)

    1. Brief Announcement: Simple Gradecast Based Algorithms

      • Michael Ben-Or, Danny Dolev, Ezra N. Hoch
      Pages 194-197
    2. Brief Announcement: Decentralized Network Bandwidth Prediction

      • Sukhyun Song, Pete Keleher, Bobby Bhattacharjee, Alan Sussman
      Pages 198-200

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Editors and Affiliations

  • Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA

    Nancy A. Lynch

  • Computer Science and Engineering, University of Connecticut, Storrs, USA

    Alexander A. Shvartsman

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