A Subjective Visit to Selected Topics in Distributed Computing

摘要

After presenting a personal view of distributed computing (of course, being per-sonal, this view is partial and questionable), this invited talk will address distributed computing problems that have recently received attention in the literature. For each of them, the talk presents the problem, results from the community, results from theauthor (and his co-authors), and questions that remain open. The following are among the topics covered in the talk.