CONFERENCE PROGRAM

Regular presentations are 25 minutes long, brief announcements (BA) are 10 minutes long.

Tuesday, September 30th

19:00 - 20:00: Welcome cocktail and registration

Wednesday, October 1st

08:00 - 09:00: Registration

09:00 - 10:00: Invited Talk - David Culler
PlanetLab: a worldwide testbed for distributed computing

10:00 - 10:30: Coffee break

10:30 - 12:10 Session 1 (Chair: TBA)
  • Resilient Consensus for Infinitely Many Processes
    M. Merritt, G. Taubenfeld
  • Uniform Solvability with a Finite Number of MWMR Registers
    M. Aguilera, B. Englert, A. Gafni
  • Timing-based Mutual Exclusion with Local Spinning
    Y. Kim, J. Anderson
  • On the Uncontended Complexity of Consensus
    V, Luchangco, M. Moir, N. Shavit

12:10 - 14:10 Lunch

14:10 - 15:50 Session 2 (Chair: TBA)
  • Probabilistic Quorums for Dynamic Systems
    I. Abraham, D. Malkhi
  • Efficient Replication of Large Data Objects
    R. Fan, N. Lynch
  • On the Locality of Consistency Conditions
    R. Vitenberg, R. Friedman
  • Multi-Writer Consistency Conditions for Shared Memory Objects
    C. Saho, E. Pierce, J. Welch

15:50 - 16:20: Coffee Break

16:20 - 17:45 Session 3 (Chair: TBA)
  • (BA) On the Accuracy and Efficiency of Ecternal Clock Estimation
    D. Tulone
  • Booting Clock Synchronization in Partially Synchronous Systems
    J. Widder
  • Automatic Discovery of Mutual Exclusion Algorithms
    Y. Bar-David, G. Taubenfeld
  • On the Implementation Complexity of Specifications of Concurrent Programs
    P. Attie

17:45 - 18:45: Business Meeting
19:30 - 21:00: Banquet

Thursday, October 2nd

09:00 - 10:15 Session 4 (Chair: TBA)
  • Competitive Management of Non-Preemptive Queues with Multiple Values
    N. Andelman, V. Mansour
  • Constructing Disjoint Paths for Secure Communication
    A. Bagchi, A. Chaudhary, M. T. Goodrich, S. Xu
  • Compact Routing for Flat Networks
    K. Iwama, M. Okita

10:15 - 10:45: Coffee break

10:45 - 11:45 Session 5 (Chair: TBA)
  • Lower Bounds for Oblivious Single-Message End-to-End Communication
    P. Fraigniaud, C. Gavoille
  • Efficient Gossip and Robust Distributed Computation
    C. Georgiou, D. Kowalski, A. Sharvtsman
  • (BA) Broadcast using Rendezvous
    P. Duchon, N. Hanusse, N. Saheb, A. Zemmari

11:45 - 13:15: Lunch

13:15 - 14:45: WORKSHOP ON ADAPTIVE DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS

  • Self-Stabilizing Autonomic Recoverer for Eventual Byzantine Software
    O. Brukman, S. Dolev, E. K. Kolodner
  • Heterogeneity-Aware Peer-to-peer Multicast
    R. van Renesse, K. Birman, A. Bozdog, D. Dumitriu, M. Singh, W. Vogels
  • OpenPING: A Refelctive Middleware Platform for construction of Adaptive Virtual Reality Applications
    P. Okanda, G. Blair, N. Parlavantzas
  • Two-ways Adaptive Failure Detection with the PHI-Failure Detector
    N. Hayashibara, X. Defago, T. Katayama

15:00 - 20:00: Excursion to the Ruins of Pompei

Friday, October 3rd

09:00 - 10:00: Invited Talk - Maurice Herlihy
The Transactional Manifesto: Toward a Low-Level API for Scalable Synchronization

10:00 - 10:30: Coffee Break

10:30 - 12:10 Session 6 (Chair: TBA)
  • Joint talk:
    • Condition-based Consensus in Synchronous Systems
      Y. Zibin
    • Using Conditions to Expedite Consensus in Synchronous Distributed Systems
      A. Mostefaoui, S. Rajsbaum, M. Raynal
  • Tight Lower Bounds on Early Local Decisions in Uniform Consensus
    P. Dutta, R. Guerraoui, B. Pochon
  • Tight Bounds for k-Set Agreement with Limited-Scope Failure Detectors
    M. Herlihy, L. Penso
  • On Failure Detectors and Type Boosters
    R. Guerraoui, P. Kouznetsov

12:10 - 14:00: Lunch

14:10 - 16:10 Session 7 (Chair: TBA)
  • GeoQuorums: Implementing Atomic Memory in Ad Hoc Networks
    S. Dolev, S. Gilbert, N. Lynch, A. Shvartsman, J. Welch
  • Asymptotically efficient approaches to fault-tolerance in peer-to-peer networks
    K. Hildrum, J. Kubiatowicz
  • Maximizing Remote Work in Flooding-based Peer-to-Peer Systems
    Q. Sun, N. Deswani, H. Garcia-Molina
  • Overcoming the Majority Barrier in Large-Scale Systems
    H. Yu
  • (BA) Self-organizing Systems Case Study: peer-to-peer networks
    E. Anceaume, M. Gradinariu, M. Roy
  • (BA) The Hyperring: A Low-Congestion Deterministic Data Structure for Distributed Environments
    B. Awerbuch, C. Scheideler

16:10 - 16:15: Closing Remarks

16:15 - 16:55: Coffee Break