Distributed Algorithms: 8th International Workshop, Wdag 1994, Terschelling, the Netherlands, September 29 - October 1, 1994. Proceedings (Paperback, 1994)

Replicated file management in large-scale distributed systems.- Realization of PRAMs: Processor design.- Factoring.- Primary partition "Virtually-synchronous communication" harder than consensus.- Secure distributed computing: Theory and practice.- Fast increment registers.- Coping with contention.- Exotic behaviour of consensus numbers.- Space-optimum conflict-free construction of 1-writer 1-reader multivalued atomic variable.- Linear-time snapshot using multi-writer multi-reader registers.- Fast, long-lived renaming.- Anomalies in the wait-free hierarchy.- Finding the extrema of a distributed multiset.- The level of handshake required for establishing a connection.- Local labeling and resource allocation using preprocessing.- A scalable approach to routing in ATM networks.- Low complexity network synchronization.- An incremental distributed algorithm for computing biconnected components.- Reaching (and maintaining) agreement in the presence of mobile faults.- Uniform deterministic self-stabilizing ring-orientation on odd-length rings.- Using failure detectors to solve consensus in asynchronous shared-memory systems.- An algorithm with optimal failure locality for the dining philosophers problem.- Average and randomized complexity of distributed problems.- Self-stabilization by local checking and global reset.- Breakpoints and time in distributed computations.- Cheaper matrix clocks.