Preface |
Message from the General Co-Chairs |
Program Committee |
Referees |
Opening Plenary Address / Session 1: |
The Post-PC Era: It's About Distributed Services / Prof. Randy H. Katz (University of California at Berkeley)Keynote Speech: |
Mobile Agents / Session 2A: |
Agent Migration between Incompatible Agent Platforms / P. Misikangas ; K. Raatikainen |
Paradigm-Oriented Distributed Computing using Mobile Agents / H. Kuang ; L. Bic ; M. Dillencourt |
System Mechanisms for Partial Rollback of Mobile Agent Execution / M. Strasser ; K. Rothermel |
Adaptive Communications / Session 2B: |
Aggregate TCP Congestion Control using Multiple Network Probing / P. Pradhan ; T. Chiueh ; A. Neogi |
Partitionable Light-Weight Groups / L. Rodrigues ; K. Guo |
Deterministic Optimal Routing for Two Heterogeneous Parallel Servers / K. Oida ; K. Shinjo |
Multimedia Systems / Session 2C: |
Critical Bandwidth Allocation Techniques for Stored Video Delivery across Best-Effort Networks / W. Feng ; M. Liu |
Striping Doesn't Scale: How to Achieve Scalability for Continuous Media Servers with Replication / C. Chou ; L. Golubchik ; J. Lui |
MPEG-4 Support to Multiuser Virtual Environments / G. Todesco ; R. Araujo |
Panel: VoIP Engineering / Dr. David C.W. Chang (Senior Director, Lara Technology Inc., USA)Session 3A: |
Network Management / Session 3B: |
A New Network Layer Protocol with Routing Address and Tables Auto-Configuration Mechanism / H. Mori ; K. Sakamura |
Scheduling Heuristics for Data Requests in an Oversubscribed Network with Priorities and Deadlines / M. Theys ; N. Beck ; H. Siegel ; M. Jurczyk ; M. Tan |
On the Burstiness of the TCP Congestion-Control Mechanism in a Distributed Computing System / P. Tinnakornsrisuphap ; I. Philp |
Clustered Architecture / Session 3C: |
Design and Analysis of Clusters with Single I/O Space / R. Ho ; K. Hwang ; H. Jin |
Distributed Java Virtual Machine for Message Passing Architectures / M. Surdeanu |
Suez: A Cluster-based Scalable Real-Time Packet Router |
Market-based Computing and Agent Organizations / Session 4A: |
The Effect of False-name Declarations in Mechanism Design: Towards Collective Decision Making on the Internet / M. Yokoo ; Y. Sakurai ; S. Matsubara |
Contract Type Sequencing for Reallocative Negotiation / M. Andersson ; T. Sandholm |
MobileSpaces: A Framework for Building Adaptive Distributed Applications using a Hierarchical Mobile Agent System / I. Satoh |
The Effect of Nogood Learning in Distributed Constraint Satisfaction / K. Hirayama |
QoS Management / Session 4B: |
Scalable QoS Guaranteed Communication Services for Real-Time Applications / B. Choi ; D. Xuan ; C. Li ; R. Bettati ; W. Zhao |
Achieving Per-Flow Weighted Rate Fairness in a Core Stateless Network / R. Sivakumar ; T. Kim ; N. Venkitaraman ; J. Li ; V. Bharghavan |
Quartz: A QoS Architecture for Open Systems / F. Siqueira ; V. Cahill |
Distributed Scheduling / Session 4C: |
An Open Real-Time Environment for Parallel and Distributed Systems / T. Kuo ; K. Lin ; Y. Wang |
Task Assignment with Unknown Duration / M. Harchol-Balter |
Scheduling with Global Information in Distributed Systems / F. Petrini |
Improving Distributed Workload Performance by Sharing both CPU and Memory Resources / X. Zhang ; Y. Qu ; L. Xiao |
Keynote Speech / Dr. J. Carl Hsu (Regional President, Asia Pacific and China, Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, Inc.)Session 5: |
Web Performance / Session 6A: |
Detecting and Representing Relevant Web Deltas using Web Join / S. Bhowmick ; S. Madria ; W. Ng ; E. Lim |
Popularity-Aware Greedy Dual-Size Web Proxy Caching Algorithms / A. Bestavros ; S. Jin |
On Request Forwarding for Dynamic Web Caching Hierarchies / C. Chiang ; Y. Li ; M. Muller |
Communication Protocols / Session 6B: |
PARK: A Paused-And-Run K-Stream Multimedia Synchronization Control Scheme / C. Huang ; H. Kung ; J. Yang |
An Asymtotically Optimal Multi-Layered Decentralized Consensus Protocol with an Initiator / Z. Lin ; M. Chen |
Atomic Broadcast in Asynchronous Crash-Recovery Distributed Systems / M. Raynal |
Distributed System Architecture / Session 6C: |
Highly Concurrent Shared Storage / K. Amiri ; G. Gibson ; R. Golding |
Efficient RMI: Dynamic Specialization of Object Serialization / K. Kono ; T. Masuda |
A Multi-version Approach to Conflict Resolution in Distributed Groupware Systems / C. Sun ; D. Chen |
Panel: Information Appliances / Dr. Bao-Shuh Paul Lin (General Manager and Managing Director, Philips Innovation Center, Taipei)Session 7A: |
Group Communication / Session 7B: |
Secure Group Communication in Asynchronous Networks with Failures: Integration and Experiments / J. Stanton ; Y. Amir ; D. Hasse ; G. Ateniese ; Y. Kim ; C. Nita-Rotaru ; T. Schlossnagle ; J. Schultz ; G. Tsudik |
A Client-Server Approach to Virtually Synchronous Group Multicast: Specifications and Algorithms / I. Keidar ; R. Khazan |
A Client-Server Oriented Algorithm for Virtually Synchronous Group Membership in WANs / J. Sussman ; K. Marzullo ; D. Dolev |
File Management / Session 7C: |
Dynamic Adaptive File Management in a Local Area Network / W. Wang ; R. Muntz ; S. Nittel |
Dynamic Replica Allocation using Database Migration in Broadband Networks / T. Hara ; K. Harumoto ; M. Tsukamoto ; S. Nishio |
Static and Adaptive Date Replication Algorithms for Fast Information Access in Large Distributed Systems / T. Loukopoulos ; I. Ahmad |
Internet Computing / Session 8A: |
Spout: A Transparent Distributed Execution Engine for Java Applets / H. Sankaran |
A Security Architecture for Mobile Agents in Ajanta / N. Karnik ; A. Tripathi |
A Framework to Protect Mobile Agents by using Reference States / F. Hohl |
Mobile Communication / Session 8B: |
Mobile Cache Protocol: A Dynamic Object Relocation Protocol for Wide Area Networks / T. Watanabe ; A. Mori ; Y. Yamamoto |
Performance Analysis of Dynamic Location Updation Strategies for Mobile Users / A. Bera ; N. Das |
An Asynchronous Recovery Scheme based on Optimistic Message Logging for Mobile Computing Systems / T. Park ; H. Yeom |
Adaptive Data Delivery in Wireless Communication Environments / C. Lin ; D. Lee |
Fault Tolerance Techniques / Session 8C: |
Graceful Quorum Reconfiguration in a Robust Emulation of Shared Memory / B. Englert ; A. Shvartsman |
Understanding Replication in Databases and Distributed Systems / F. Pedone ; M. Wiesmann ; A. Schiper ; B. Kemme ; G. Alonso |
An Adaptive, Perception-Driven Error Spreading Scheme in Continuous Media Streaming / S. Varadarajan ; H. Ngo ; J. Srivastava |
Deadlock Analysis of Client/Server Programs / J. Zhou ; K. Tai |
Keynote Speech: Impact of Photonic Technology on the Future Network / Dr. Yukou Mochida (Executive Director, Fujitsu Labs)Session 9: |
Distributed Services / Session 10A: |
A Dynamic Distributed Video on Demand Service / C. Bouras ; V. Kapoulas ; A. Konidaris ; A. Sevasti |
A Query Propagation Approach to Improve CORBA Trading Service Scalability / Z. Tari ; G. Craske |
Multimedia Service Configuration and Reservation in Heterogeneous Environments / D. Xu ; D. Wichadakul ; K. Nahrstedt |
Mobile Environment / Session 10B: |
A Semantic Broadcast Scheme for a Mobile Environment based on Dynamic Chunking / K. Lee ; H. Leong ; A. Si |
An Efficient Cache Maintenance Scheme for Mobile Environment / A. Kahol ; S. Khurana ; S. Gupta ; P. Srimani |
On Supporting Weakly-Connected Browsing in a Mobile Web Environment / D. McLeod ; S. Yau |
Fault Recovery / Session 10C: |
On Low-Cost Error Containment and Recovery Methods for Guarded Software Upgrading / A. Tai ; K. Tso ; L. Alkalai ; S. Chau ; W. Sanders |
Coherence-based Coordinated Checkpointing for Software Distributed Shared Memory Systems / A. Kongmunvattana ; S. Tanchatchawal ; N. Tzeng |
An Application-Transparent, Platform-Independent Approach to Rollback-Recovery for Mobile Agent Systems / E. Gendelman |
Panel: E-commerce on the Web / Dr. Philip S. Yu (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA)Session 11A: |
Distributed Algorithms / Session 11B: |
Self-Stabilizing Network Orientation Algorithms in Arbitrary Rooted Networks / A. Datta ; S. Gurumurthy ; F. Petit ; V. Villain |
Computing Global Functions in Asynchronous Distributed Systems Prone to Process Crashes / J. Helary ; M. Hurfin ; A. Mostefaoui ; F. Tronel |
A Relaxed Mutual Exclusion Problem with Application to Channel Allocation in Mobile Cellular Networks / T. Lai ; J. Jiang ; T. Ma |
Cluster Performance / Session 11C: |
Boosting the Performance of NOW-based Shared Memory Multiprocessors through Directory Hints / H. Hsiao ; C. King |
Performance Evaluation of Soft Real-Time Scheduling for Multicomputer Cluster / W. Zhu ; B. Fleisch |
Consistency Requirements of Distributed Shared Memory for Dijkstra's Mutual Exclusion Algorithm / J. Brzezinski ; D. Wawrzyniak |
Web-based Applications / Session 12A: |
TabSum: A Flexible and Dynamic Table Summarization Approach / M. Lo ; K. Wu ; P. Yu |
Neural Nets based Predictive Prefetching to Tolerate WWW Latency / T. Ibrahim ; C. Xu |
Index Structures of User Profiles for Efficient Web Page Filtering Services / Y. Wu ; A. Chen |
Design with Distributed Algorithm / Session 12B: |
Prediction-Capable Data Compression Algorithms for Improving Transmission Efficiency on Distributed Systems / H. Chiou ; A. Lai ; C. Lei |
Scheduling using Genetic Algorithms / U. Fissgus |
Precluding Useless Events for On-Line Global Predicate Detections / L. Yen |
Architectural Supports / Session 12C: |
Active Files: A Mechanism for Integrating Legacy Applications into Distributed Systems / P. Dasgupta ; A. Itzkovitz ; V. Karamcheti |
A Content Placement and Management System for Distributed Web-Server Systems / C. Yang ; M. Luo |
HydraNet-FT: Network Support for Dependable Services / G. Shenoy ; S. Satapati |
Author Index |
Preface |
Message from the General Co-Chairs |
Program Committee |