The 17th International Conference on
Distributed Computer Systems, 28-30 May 1997

Program

Cache Consistency

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  Chengjie Liu, Pei Cao: Maintaining Strong Cache Consistency in the World-Wide Web. 0-
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  Markos Zaharioudakis, Michael J. Carey: Hierarchical, Adaptive Cache Consistency in a Page Server OODBMS. 0-
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  Atul Adya, Miguel Castro, Barbara Liskov, Umesh Maheshwari, Liuba Shrira: Fragment Reconstruction: Providing Global Cache Coherence in a Transactional Storage System. 0-

Network Protocols

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  Katherine Guo, Luís Rodrigues: Dynamic Light-Weight Groups. 0-
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  Injong Rhee, Shun Yan Cheung, Phillip W. Hutto, Vaidy S. Sunderam: Group Communication Support for Distributed Multimedia and CSCW Systems. 0-
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  Jochen Behrens, J. J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves: Fast Dissemination of Link States Using Bounded Sequence Numbers with no Periodic Updates or Age Fields. 0-

Fault-Tolerant Systems

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  Yi-Min Wang, Om P. Damani, Vijay K. Garg: Distributed Recovery with K-Optimistic Logging. 0-
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  Alain Knaff, Pascal Dechamboux: Reliable Support for a Persistent Distributed Shared Memory. 0-
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  Guillermo A. Alvarez, Flaviu Cristian: Centralized Failure Injection for Distributed, Fault-Tolerant Protocol Testing. 0-

Quorums for Scalability

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  Dahlia Malkhi, Michael Merritt, Ohad Rodeh: Secure Reliable Multicast Protocols in a WAN. 0-
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  Mitchell L. Neilsen: A Dynamic Probe Strategy for Quorum Systems. 0-
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  Wai-Shing Luk, Tien-Tsin Wong: Two New Quorum Based Algorithms for Distributed Mutual Exclusion. 0-

Mobile Communications

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  Sajal K. Das, Sanjoy K. Sen, Rajeev Jayaram: A Structured Channel Borrowing Scheme for Dynamic Load Balancing in Cellular Networks. 0-
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  Ming-Syan Chen, Philip S. Yu, Kun-Lung Wu: Indexed Sequential Data Broadcasting in Wireless Mobile Computing. 0-
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  Xuefeng Dong, Ten-Hwang Lai: Distributed Dynamic Carrier Allocation in Mobile Cellular Networks: Search vs. Update. 0-

Load Balancing

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  Mark Nuttall, Morris Sloman: Workload Characteristics for Process Migration and Load Balancing. 0-
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  Chi-Chung Hui, Samuel T. Chanson: Efficient Load Balancing in Interconnected LANs Using Group Communication. 0-
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  Abdur Chowdhury, Lisa D. Nicklas, Sanjeev Setia, Elizabeth L. White: Supporting Dynamic Space-sharing on Clusters of Non-dedicated Workstations. 0-

WEB

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  Abdelsalam Heddaya, Sulaiman Mirdad: WebWave: Globally Load Balanced Fully Distributed Caching of Hot Published Documents. 0-
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  Michele Colajanni, Philip S. Yu, Daniel M. Dias: Scheduling Algorithms for Distributed Web Servers. 0-

New Applications

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  Robert E. Strom, Guruduth Banavar, Kevan Miller, Atul Prakash, Michael Ward: Concurrency Control and View Notification Algorithms for Collaborative Replicated Objects. 0-
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  Wai Lam, Alberto Maria Segre: Distributed Data Mining of Probabilistic Knowledge. 0-
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  Hans Schuster, Stefan Jablonski, Christoph Bussler: Client/Server Qualities: A Basis for Reliable Distributed Workflow Management Systems. 0-

Real-Time Communications

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  Qin Zheng, Tetsuya Yokotani, Tatsuki Ichihashi, Yasunoni Nemoto: Connection Admission Control for Hard Real-Time Communication in ATM Networks. 0-
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  Sharad Sundaresan, Riccardo Bettati: Distributed Connection Management for Real-Time Communication over Wormhole-Routed Networks. 0-
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  Biao Chen, Anirudha Sahoo, Wei Zhao, Amitava Raha: Connection-Oriented Communications for Real-Time Applications in FDDI-ATM-FDDI Heterogeneous Networks. 0-
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  Saurav Chatterjee: A Quality of Service-based Allocation and Routing Algorithm for Distributed, Heterogeneous Real Time Systems. 0-

Languages and Software

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  Richard S. Hall, Dennis Heimbigner, André van der Hoek, Alexander L. Wolf: The Software Dock: An Architecture for Post-Development Configuration Management in a Wide-Area Network. 0-
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  Aleta Ricciardi: The Sage Project: A New Approach to Software Engineering for Distributed Applications. 0-
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  Jun-Cheol Park, Raymond E. Miller: Synthesizing Protocol Specifications from Service Specifications in Timed Extended Finite State Machines. 0-
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  K. C. Tai: Race Analysis of Traces of Message-Passing Programs. 0-

Distributed Shared Memory

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  Richard West, Karsten Schwan, Ivan Tacic, Mustaque Ahamad: Exploiting Temporal and Spatial Constraints on Distributed Shared Objects. 0-
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  Shiwa S. Fu, Nian-Feng Tzeng: Aggressive Release Consistency for Software Distributed Shared Memory. 0-
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  Kritchalach Thitikamol, Peter J. Keleher: Multi-threading and Remote Latency in Software DSMs. 0-
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  Taesoon Park, Sung Bok Cho, Heon Young Yeom: An Efficient Logging Scheme for Recoverable Distributed Shared Memory System. 0-

Security and Protocols

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  Richard Hayton, Ken Moody: An Open Architecture for Secure Interworking Services. 0-
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  Jiawen Su, Daniel W. Manchala: Building Trust for Distributed Commerce Transactions. 0-
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  Matti A. Hiltunen, Richard D. Schlichting: Access Control in Wide-Area Networks. 0-

Mobile Objects

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  Ophir Holder, Israel Ben-Shaul: A Reflective Model for Mobile Software Objects. 0-
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  Munehiro Fukuda, Lubomir Bic, Michael B. Dillencourt, Fehmina Merchant: Messages versus Messengers in Distributed Programming. 0-
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  Hermann Härtig, Lars Reuther: Encapsulating Mobile Objects. 0-

Mobile Networks

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  Bikram S. Bakshi, P. Krishna, Nitin H. Vaidya, Dhiraj K. Pradhan: Improving Performance of TCP over Wireless Networks. 0-
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  Partho Pratim Mishra, Mani B. Srivastava: Effect of Connection Rerouting on Application Performance in Mobile Networks. 0-
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  Girish Welling, B. R. Badrinath: A Framework for Environment Aware Mobile Applications. 0-

Communication Middleware

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  Guang-Way Sheu, Yue-Shan Chang, Deron Liang, Shyan-Ming Yuan: A Fault-Tolerant Object Service on CORBA. 0-
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  Douglas C. Schmidt, Aniruddha S. Gokhale: Evaluating CORBA Latency and Scalability Over High-Speed ATM Networks. 0-
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  G. Robert Malan, Farnam Jahanian, Peter Knoop: Comparison of Two Middleware Data Dissemination Services in a Wide-Area Distributed Systems. 0-

Real-Time Scheduling

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  Andreas Polze, Gerhard Fohler, Matthias Werner: Predictable Network Computing. 0-
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  Jan Jonsson, Kang G. Shin: Deadline Assignment in Distributed Hard Real-Time Systems with Relaxed Locality Constraints. 0-
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  Laurent George, Pascale Minet: A FIFO Worst Case Analysis for a Hard Real-Time Distributed Problem with Consistency Constraints. 0-
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  Azer Bestavros: Load Profiling In Distributed Real-Time Systems. 0-

Database Systems

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  Jian Yang, Kamalakar Karlapalem, Qing Li: A Framework for Designing Materialized Views in Data Warehousing Environment. 0-
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  Daniel Barbará: Certification Reports: Supporting Transactions in Wireless Systems. 0-
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  Ling Liu, Calton Pu: A Dynamic Query Scheduling Framework for Distributed and Evolving Information Systems. 0-
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  Fahim Sheikh, C. Murray Woodside: Layered Analytic Performance Modelling of a Distributed Database System. 0-

Distributed Algorithms

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  Venkatesh V. Murty, Vijay K. Garg: Characterization of Message Ordering Specifications and Protocols. 0-
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  Athanassios S. Poulakidas, Ambuj K. Singh: Online Replication of Shared Variables. 0-
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  Keqin Li: Determining the Expected Load of Dynamic Tree Embeddings in Hypercubes. 0-
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  Sylvain Louboutin, Vinny Cahill: Comprehensive Distributed Garbage Collection by Tracking Causal Dependencies of Relevant Mutator Events. 0-

Distributed Multimedia

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  Nalini Venkatasubramanian, Srinivas Ramanathan: Load Management in Distributed Video Servers. 0-
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  Sajal K. Das, Rajeev Jayaram, Sanjoy K. Sen: An Optimistic Quality-of-Service Provisioning Scheme for Cellular Networks. 0-
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  Tsipora P. Barzilai, Dilip D. Kandlur, Ashish Mehra, Debanjan Saha, Steve Wise: Design and Implementation of an RSVP based Quality of Service Architecture for Integrated Services Internet. 0-

Distributed Operating Systems

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  Ajay D. Kshemkalyani, Mukesh Singhal: Distributed Detection of Generalized Deadlocks. 0-
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  Nayeem Islam, Andreas L. Prodromidis, Mark S. Squillante, Ajei S. Gopal, Liana L. Fong: Extensible Resource Management for Cluster Computing. 0-

Group Communications

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  Roberto Baldoni, Roy Friedman, Robbert van Renesse: The Hierarchical Daisy Architecture for Causal Delivery. 0-
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  Rachid Guerraoui, André Schiper: Total Order Multicast to Multiple Groups. 0-
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  Paul A. Jensen, Nandit Soparkar, Amit G. Mathur: Characterizing Multicast Orderings Using Concurrency Control Theory. 0-