Topic 8: Distributed Systems and Algorithms

摘要

The increasing significance of Distributed Computing becomes more and more crucial with the prevail of technological advances that make Global Computing a reality in modern world. Indeed, it is hard to imagine some application or computational activity and process that falls outside Distributed Computing. With the large advent of distributed systems, we are faced with the real challenges of distributed computation: How do we cope with asynchrony and failures? How (and how well) do we achieve load balancing? How do we model and analyze malicious and selfish behavior? How do we address mobility, heterogeneity and the dynamic nature of participating processes? What can we achieve in the presence of disconnecting operations that cause network partitioning? These and many more are some of the questions that are routinely scrutinized under the light of current research in Distributed Systems and Algorithms, the well-known Topic 8 of Europar. This Europar topic provides a forum for both research and development, of interest to both academia and industry, to present and discuss novel approaches to Distributed Computing and its relation and connection to Parallel Processing. The Europar 2012 Call for Papers encouraged submission of papers accross the whole spectrum of Distributed Systems and Algorithms, with emphasis on several classical and currently popular subareas.