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For courses on Distributed Systems, Distributed Operating Systems,
and Advanced Operating Systems focusing on distributed systems,
found in departments of Computer Science, Computer Engineering and
Electrical Engineering. Very few textbooks today explore
distributed systems in a manner appropriate for university
students. In this unique text, esteemed authors Tanenbaum and van
Steen provide full coverage of the field in a systematic way that
can be readily used for teaching. No other text examines the
underlying principles - and their applications to a wide variety of
practical distributed systems - with this level of depth and
clarity.
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the
ACM/IFIP/USENIX 7th International Middleware Conference 2006, held
in Melbourne, Australia, in November/December 2006. The 21 revised
full papers are organized in topical sections on performance,
composition, management, publish/subscribe technology, databases,
mobile and ubiquitous computing, security, and data mining
techniques.
Information systems can be complex due to numerous factors
including scale, decentralization, heterogeneity, mobility,
dynamism, bugs and failures. Depl- ing, operating and maintaining
such systems can be not only very di?cult, but also very costly. A
?urry of recent activity has been directed at this pr- lem, and
future information systems are envisioned as self-con?guring, se-
organizing, self-managingandself-repairing.Collectively,
wecalltheseproperties self- properties. This book is a "spin-o?" of
a by-invitation-only Bertinoro workshop on se-
propertiesincomplexsystemswhichwasheldinsummer2004inBertinoro,
Italy. The Self-star workshop brought together researchers and
practitioners from d- ferent disciplines and with di?erent
backgrounds to discuss complex information
systems.Thethemeoftheworkshopwastoidentifytheconceptualandpractical
foundationsformodeling, analyzingandachievingself-
propertiesindistributed and networked systems. Partly based on
these discussions, we solicited papers from the workshop
participants and a set of invitees for this book. We sought
original contributions in which authors explicitly take a position
concerningrequirements, usefulness, potentialandlimitations
oftechnologies for self- properties of complex systems. This
position needed to be founded on - search results that were put
clearly in context with respect to the position sta- ment. We
strongly encouraged visionary statements, thought-provoking ideas,
and exploratory results that will help the reader form her or his
own opinions on the importance of self- properties in current and
future complex information systems.
Since the start of the International Workshop on Web Caching and
Content Distribution (WCW) in 1996, it has served as the premiere
meeting for researchers and practitioners to exchange results and
visions on all aspects of content caching, distribution, and
delivery. Building on the success of the previous WCW meetings, WCW
2004 extended its scope and covered interesting research and
deployment areas relating to content services as they move through
the Internet. This year, WCW was held in Beijing, China. Although
it was the first time that WCW was held in Asia, we received more
than 50 high quality papers from five continents. Fifteen papers
were accepted as regular papers and 6 papers as synopses to appear
in the proceedings. The topics covered included architectural
issues, routing and placement, caching in both traditional content
delivery networks as well as in peer-- peer systems, systems
management and deployment, and performance evaluation. We would
like to take this opportunity to thank all those who submitted
papers to WCW 2004 for their valued contribution to the workshop.
This event would not have been possible without the broad and
personal support and the invaluable suggestions and contributions
of the members of the program committee and the steering committee.
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th
International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems,
OPODIS 2013, held in Nice, France, in December 2013. The 19 papers
presented together with two invited talks were carefully reviewed
and selected from 41 submissions. The conference is an
international forum for the exchange of state-of-the-art knowledge
on distributed computing and systems. Papers were sought soliciting
original research contributions to the theory, specification,
design and implementation of distributed systems.
This book aims to explain the basics of graph theory that are
needed at an introductory level for students in computer or
information sciences. To motivate students and to show that even
these basic notions can be extremely useful, the book also aims to
provide an introduction to the modern field of network science.
Mathematics is often unnecessarily difficult for students, at times
even intimidating. For this reason, explicit attention is paid in
the first chapters to mathematical notations and proof techniques,
emphasizing that the notations form the biggest obstacle, not the
mathematical concepts themselves. This approach allows to gradually
prepare students for using tools that are necessary to put graph
theory to work: complex networks. In the second part of the book
the student learns about random networks, small worlds, the
structure of the Internet and the Web, peer-to-peer systems, and
social networks. Again, everything is discussed at an elementary
level, but such that in the end students indeed have the feeling
that they: 1.Have learned how to read and understand the basic
mathematics related to graph theory. 2.Understand how basic graph
theory can be applied to optimization problems such as routing in
communication networks. 3.Know a bit more about this sometimes
mystical field of small worlds and random networks. There is an
accompanying web site www.distributed-systems.net/gtcn from where
supplementary material can be obtained, including exercises,
Mathematica notebooks, data for analyzing graphs, and generators
for various complex networks.
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