Future directions in distributed computing. Research and position papers (Q1396808)

The articles of this volume will be reviewed individually. Indexed articles: \textit{Schiper, André}, Practical impact of group communication theory, 1-10 [Zbl 1018.68799] \textit{Schroeder, Michael D.}, On the impact of academic distributed systems research on industrial practice, 11-13 [Zbl 1018.68802] \textit{Friedman, Roy; Mostéfaoui, A.; Rajsbaum, S.; Raynal, Michel}, Using error-correcting codes to solve distributed agreement problems: A future direction in distributed computing?, 17-21 [Zbl 1018.68641] \textit{Lamport, Leslie}, Lower bounds for asynchronous consensus, 22-23 [Zbl 1018.68728] \textit{Junqueira, Flavio; Marzullo, Keith}, Designing algorithms for dependent process failures, 24-28 [Zbl 1018.68703] \textit{Charron-Bost, Bernadette}, Comparing the atomic commitment and consensus problems, 29-34 [Zbl 1018.68581] \textit{Keidar, Idit; Rajsbaum, S.}, Open questions on consensus performance in well-behaved runs, 35-39 [Zbl 1018.68710] \textit{Keidar, Idit}, Challenges in evaluating distributed algorithms, 40-44 [Zbl 1018.68709] \textit{Jiménez-Peris, Ricardo; Patiño-Martínez, Marta}, Towards robust optimistic approaches, 45-50 [Zbl 1018.68696] \textit{Yin, Jian; Martin, Jean-Philippe; Venkataramani, Arun; Alvisi, Lorenzo; Dahlin, Mike}, Towards a practical approach to confidential Byzantine fault tolerance, 51-56 [Zbl 1018.68866] \textit{Cachin, Christian}, Modeling complexity in secure distributed computing, 57-61 [Zbl 1018.68571] \textit{Lynch, Nancy; Shvartsman, Alex}, Communication and data sharing for dynamic distributed systems, 62-67 [Zbl 1018.68744] \textit{Guerraoui, Rachid}, Dissecting distributed computations, 68-72 [Zbl 1018.68670] \textit{Ahamad, Mustaque; Raynal, Michel}, Ordering vs timeliness: Two facets of consistency?, 73-77 [Zbl 1018.68516] \textit{Johansen, Dag; van Renesse, Robbert; Schneider, Fred B.}, WAIF: Web of asynchronous information filters, 81-86 [Zbl 1018.68698] \textit{van Renesse, Robbert}, The importance of aggregation, 87-92 [Zbl 1018.68840] \textit{Malkhi, Dahlia}, Dynamic lookup networks, 93-96 [Zbl 1018.68750] \textit{Birman, Kenneth P.}, The surprising power of epidemic communication, 97-102 [Zbl 1018.68556] \textit{Castro, Miguel; Druschel, Peter; Hu, Y. Charlie; Rowstron, Antony}, Topology-aware routing in structured peer-to-peer overlay networks, 103-107 [Zbl 1018.68576] \textit{Veríssimo, Paulo}, Uncertainty and predictability: Can they be reconciled?, 108-113 [Zbl 1018.68844] \textit{Friedman, Roy}, Fuzzy group membership, 114-118 [Zbl 1018.68640] \textit{Montresor, Alberto; Meling, Hein; Babaoğlu, Özalp}, Toward self-organizing, self-repairing and resilient distributed systems, 119-123 [Zbl 1018.68764] \textit{Vahdat, Amin}, Dynamically provisioning distributed systems to meet target levels of performance, availability, and data quality, 127-131 [Zbl 1018.68836] \textit{Kemme, Bettina}, Database replication based on group communication: Implementation issues, 132-136 [Zbl 1018.68712] \textit{Baldoni, Roberto; Contenti, Mariangela; Virgillito, Antonino}, The evolution of publish/subscribe communication systems, 137-141 [Zbl 1018.68537] \textit{Weatherspoon, Hakim; Wells, Chris; Kubiatowicz, John D.}, Naming and integrity: Self-verifying data in peer-to-peer systems, 142-147 [Zbl 1018.68850] \textit{Hand, Steven; Roscoe, Timothy}, Spread spectrum storage with Mnemosyne, 148-152 [Zbl 1018.68678] \textit{Bhagwan, Ranjita; Moore, David; Savage, Stefan; Voelker, Geoffrey M.}, Replication strategies for highly available peer-to-peer storage, 153-158 [Zbl 1018.68551] \textit{Chockler, Gregory; Malkhi, Dahlia; Dolev, Danny}, A data-centric approach for scalable state machine replication, 159-163 [Zbl 1018.68586] \textit{Shapiro, Marc; Saito, Yasushi}, Scaling optimistic replication, 164-168 [Zbl 1018.68806] \textit{Whetten, Brian}, Building a bridge between distributed systems theory and commercial practice, 173-179 [Zbl 1018.68853] \textit{Gupta, Indranil; Birman, Kenneth P.}, Holistic operations in large-scale sensor network systems: A probabilistic peer-to-peer approach, 180-185 [Zbl 1018.68672] \textit{Fetzer, Christof; Högstedt, Karin}, Challenges in making pervasive systems dependable, 186-190 [Zbl 1018.68635] \textit{Malek, Miroslaw}, Towards dependable networks of mobile arbitrary devices -- diagnosis and scalability, 191-196 [Zbl 1018.68749] \textit{Vogels, Werner}, Technology challenges for the global real-time enterprise, 197-201 [Zbl 1018.68846] \textit{Shrivastava, Santosh K.}, Middleware for supporting inter-organizational interactions, 202-206 [Zbl 1018.68810] \textit{González-Barahona, Jesús M.; de-las-Heras-Quirós, Pedro}, Hosting of libre software projects: A distributed peer-to-peer approach, 207-211 [Zbl 1018.68663] \textit{Grimm, Robert; Bershad, Brian}, System support for pervasive applications, 212-217 [Zbl 1018.68667]