Distributed computing. 17th international conference, DISC 2003, Sorrento, Italy, October 1--3, 2003. Proceedings (Q1412212)

The articles of this volume will be reviewed individually. The preceding conference has been reviewed (see Zbl 1007.00056). Indexed articles: \textit{Merritt, Michael; Taubenfeld, Gadi}, Resilient consensus for infinitely many processes. (Extended abstract), 1-15 [Zbl 1180.68064] \textit{Aguilera, Marcos K.; Englert, Burkhard; Gafni, Eli}, Uniform solvability with a finite number of MWMR registers. (Extended abstract), 16-29 [Zbl 1180.68053] \textit{Kim, Yong-Jik; Anderson, James H.}, Timing-based mutual exclusion with local spinning. (Extended abstract), 30-44 [Zbl 1180.68062] \textit{Luchangco, Victor; Moir, Mark; Shavit, Nir}, On the uncontended complexity of consensus, 45-59 [Zbl 1180.68063] \textit{Abraham, Ittai; Malkhi, Dahlia}, Probabilistic quorums for dynamic systems. (Extended abstract), 60-74 [Zbl 1180.68052] \textit{Fan, Rui; Lynch, Nancy A.}, Efficient replication of large data objects, 75-91 [Zbl 1180.68055] \textit{Vitenberg, Roman; Friedman, Roy}, On the locality of consistency conditions, 92-105 [Zbl 1180.68069] \textit{Shao, Cheng; Pierce, Evelyn; Welch, Jennifer L.}, Multi-writer consistency conditions for shared memory objects, 106-120 [Zbl 1180.68067] \textit{Widder, Josef}, Booting clock synchronization in partially synchronous systems, 121-135 [Zbl 1180.68070] \textit{Attie, Paul C.}, On the implementation complexity of specifications of concurrent programs, 151-165 [Zbl 1180.68106] \textit{Andelman, Nir; Mansour, Yishay}, Competitive management of non-preemptive queues with multiple values, 166-180 [Zbl 1180.68075] \textit{Bagchi, Amitabha; Chaudhary, Amitabh; Goodrich, Michael T.; Xu, Shouhuai}, Constructing disjoint paths for secure communication, 181-195 [Zbl 1180.68009] \textit{Iwama, Kazuo; Okita, Masaki}, Compact routing for flat networks, 196-210 [Zbl 1180.68060] \textit{Fraigniaud, Pierre; Gavoille, Cyril}, Lower bounds for oblivious single-packet end-to-end communication, 211-223 [Zbl 1180.68014] \textit{Georgiou, Chryssis; Kowalski, Dariusz R.; Shvartsman, Alex A.}, Efficient gossip and robust distributed computation, 224-238 [Zbl 1180.68015] \textit{Zibin, Yoav}, Condition-based consensus in synchronous systems, 239-248 [Zbl 1180.68071] \textit{Mostefaoui, Achour; Rajsbaum, Sergio; Raynal, Michel}, Using conditions to expedite consensus in synchronous distributed systems, 249-263 [Zbl 1180.68065] \textit{Dutta, Partha; Guerraoui, Rachid; Pochon, Bastian}, Tight bounds on early local decisions in uniform consensus. (Extended abstract), 264-278 [Zbl 1180.68054] \textit{Herlihy, Maurice; Penso, Lucia Draque}, Tight bounds for \(k\)-set agreement with limited-scope failure detectors, 279-291 [Zbl 1180.68192] \textit{Guerraoui, Rachid; Kouznetsov, Petr}, On failure detectors and type boosters. (Extended abstract), 292-305 [Zbl 1180.68191] \textit{Hildrum, Kirsten; Kubiatowicz, John}, Asymptotically efficient approaches to fault-tolerance in peer-to-peer networks, 321-336 [Zbl 1180.68058] \textit{Sun, Qixiang; Daswani, Neil; Garcia-Molina, Hector}, Maximizing remote work in flooding-based peer-to-peer systems, 337-351 [Zbl 1180.68068]