| Future Directions in Distributed Computing: Research and Position Papers 2003 Edition Contributor(s): Schiper, André (Editor), Shvartsman, Alex a. (Editor), Weatherspoon, Hakim (Editor) |
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ISBN: 3540009124 ISBN-13: 9783540009122 Publisher: Springer OUR PRICE: $52.24 Product Type: Paperback Published: April 2003 Annotation: This book presents a collection of 38 position and research papers surveying the future landscape of research in distributed computing, written by the participants of the Workshop on Future Directions in Distributed Computing, held in Bertinoro, Italy in June 2002. The papers are grouped into four topical sections. The first deals with foundations of distributed computing. The second section surveys research issues in novel communication and network services. The third section is about data, file services, coherence, and replication in network computing. The last section deals with system and application issues. The book also includes two papers presenting insights into technological and social processes that are part of the development of the distributed computing technology. All in all, the book contains a plethora of research topics that are targets of future research or that are already being addressed by forward-looking research in distributed computing. The book was written to be a source of inspiration for researchers and a source of motivation for graduate students interested in entering the exciting research field of distributed computing.
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| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Computers | Client-server Computing - General - Medical - Computers | Computer Science |
| Dewey: 004.36 |
| LCCN: 2003045463 |
| Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (0.74 lbs) 226 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Every year we witness acceleration in the availability, deployment, and use of distributed applications. However building increasingly sophisticated applications for extant and emerging networked systems continues to be challenging for several reasons: - Abstract models of computation used in distributed systems research often do not fully capture the limitations and the unpredictable nature of realistic distributed computing platforms; - Fault-tolerance and ef?ciency of computation are dif?cult to combine when the c- puting medium is subject to changes, asynchrony, and failures; - Middleware used for constructing distributed software does not provide services most suitable for sophisticated distributed applications; - Middleware services are speci?ed informally and without precise guarantees of e- ciency, fault-tolerance, scalability, and compositionality; - Speci?cation of distributed deployment of software systems is often left out of the development process; - Finally, there persists an organizational and cultural gap between engineering groups developing systems in a commercial enterprise, and research groups advancing the scienti?c state-of-the-art in academic and industrial settings. The objectives of this book are: (1) to serve as a motivation for de?ning future research programs in distributed computing, (2) to help identify areas where practitioners and engineers on the one hand and scientists and researchers on the other can improve the state of distributed computing through synergistic efforts, and (3) to motivate graduate students interested in entering the exciting research ?eld of distributed computing. |