Program for PODC 2003

Important note about timing: Regular talks (labelled with R) should be 22 minutes, with 3 minutes for questions and speaker change. Brief announcements (labelled with BA) should be 8 minutes, with 2 minutes for questions and speaker change. Due to a full schedule, speakers are requested to strictly adhere to these time limits.


July 13, 2003 - Sunday

Note: All Tutorials today will meet in Suffolk next to the registration area.
9:00am - 10:00am Registration
10:00am - 12:00pm Tutorial 1 - Chair: James Aspnes
Incentives and Internet Computation
Joan Feigenbaum (Yale) and Scott Shenker (ICSI)
12:00noon - 1:00pm Lunch (on your own)
1:00pm - 3:00pm Tutorial 2 - Chair: Gene Itkis
Content Protection Technologies
Jeffrey B. Lotspiech, Tushar Chandra, and Donald E. Leake, Jr. (IBM)
3:00pm - 3:10pm Break
3:10pm - 3:20pm Fischer Celebration Opening Remarks
Gadi Taubenfeld
3:20pm - 4:05pm Fischer Celebration Lecture 1
Title: M.J. Fischer, et al., The First Decade -- mid-60's to 70's
Albert Meyer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
4:05pm - 4:50pm Fischer Celebration Lecture 2
Working with Mike on Distributed Computing Theory, 1978-1992
Nancy Lynch, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
4:50pm - 5:00pm Break
5:00pm - 5:45pm Fischer Celebration Lecture 3
Title: TBA
Leslie Lamport, Microsoft Research
5:45pm - 6:30pm Fischer Celebration Lecture 4
Fischer's Cryptographic Protocols
Rebecca Wright, Stevens Institute of Technology
6:45pm Buses leave from Sheraton Needham hotel for excursion
7:00pm - 10:00pm Excursion and reception dinner sponsored by Sun Microsystems Laboratories
Boston's Museum of Science - Skyline Room
10:30pm (approx) Buses return to Sheraton Needham hotel from excursion


July 14, 2003 - Monday

Note: All Sessions through the week, including the business meeting, will meet in the Ballroom
8:00am - 8:25am Breakfast (provided by PODC)
8:25am - 8:30am Opening Remarks
8:30am - 9:30am Invited Talk 1
Title: Data Streams, Message Brokers, Sensor Networks, and Other Strange Places for Database Query Processing
Michael Franklin, University of California at Berkeley
9:30am - 10:20am Session 1 - Chair: Rajmohan Rajaraman

R1: Constant-Time Distributed Dominating Set Approximation
Fabian Kuhn, Roger Wattenhofer
Winner of Best Student Paper Award

R2: Distributed Error Confinement
Yossi Azar, Shay Kutten, Boaz Patt-Shamir

10:20am - 10:40am Break
10:40am - 12:30pm Session 2 - Chair: Boaz Patt-Shamir

R3: Compact Roundtrip Routing with Topology-Independent Node Names
Marta Arias, Lenore Cowen, A. Kofi Laing

R4: A New Approach to On-Demand Loop-Free Routing in Ad Hoc Networks
J.J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves, Marc Mosko, Charles Perkins

R5: Geometric Ad-Hoc Routing: Of Theory and Practice
Fabian Kuhn, Roger Wattenhofer, Yan Zhang, Aaron Zollinger

R6: Broadcasting in Undirected Ad Hoc Radio Networks
Dariusz Kowalski, Andrzej Pelc

BA1: An Elegant Cluster-Based Control Mechanism for Communication Networks
Srikant Kuppa, Mansi Ramakrishnan, Srinivasan Krishnamurthy, S. Venkatesan

12:30pm - 1:50pm Lunch (provided by PODC)
1:50pm - 3:25pm Session 3 - Chair: Marcos Aguilera

R7: Split-Ordered Lists - Lock-Free Extensible Hash Tables
Ori Shalev, Nir Shavit

R8: Software Transactional Memory for Dynamic-Sized Data Structures
Maurice Herlihy, Victor Luchangco, Mark Moir, William Scherer

R9: Operation-Valency and the Cost of Coordination
Danny Hendler, Nir Shavit

BA2: Concurrent Counting is Harder than Queuing
Srikanta Tirthapura

BA3: Dynamic Group Communication
Andre Schiper

3:25pm - 3:45pm Break
3:45pm - 5:45pm Session 4 - Chair: James Aspnes

R10: Scalable and Dynamic Quorum Systems
Moni Naor, Udi Wieder

R11: Peer-to-Peer Systems for Prefix Search
Baruch Awerbuch, Christian Scheideler

R12: Routing Networks for Distributed Hash Tables
Gurmeet Singh Manku

R13: Asynchronous Resource Discovery
Ittai Abraham, Danny Dolev

BA4: An Overview of the Content-Addressable Network D2B
Pierre Fraigniaud, Philippe Gauron

BA5: Deterministic SkipNet
Nicholas J.A. Harvey, J. Ian Munro

5:45pm - 8:30pm Dinner on your own
8:30pm - 11:00pm Business Meeting and Rump Session - Meeting in Ballroom


July 15, 2003 - Tuesday

8:00am - 8:30am Breakfast (provided by PODC)
8:30am - 9:30am Invited Talk 2
Cryptography and Competition Policy -- Issues with `Trusted Computing'
Ross Anderson, University of Cambridge
9:30am - 10:20am Session 5 (Security) - Chair: Amir Herzberg

R14: An Asynchronous Protocol for Distributed Computation of RSA Inverses and its Applications
Christian Cachin

R15: Efficient Revocation and Threshold Pairing Based Cryptosystems
Benoit Libert, Jean-Jacques Quisquater

10:20am - 10:40am Break
10:40am - 12:15pm Session 6 (Security) - Chair: Gene Itkis

R16: Constructing Fair-Exchange Protocols for E-Commerce Via Distributed Computation of RSA Signatures
Jung Min Park, Edwin Chong, Howard Siegel, Indrajit Ray

R17: Oblivious Signature-Based Envelope
Ninghui Li, Wenliang Du, Dan Boneh

R18: Scalable Public-Key Tracing and Revoking
Yevgeniy Dodis, Nelly Fazio, Aggelos Kiayias, Moti Yung

BA 6: Impossibility Results for Concurrent Secure Two-Party Computation
Yehuda Lindell

BA7: A Method for Exchanging Valuable Data: How to Realize Matching Oblivious Transfer
Shin'ichiro Matsuo, Wakaha Ogata

12:15pm - 2:15pm Lunch (on your own)
2:15pm - 3:25pm Session 7 - Chair: Marcos Aguilera

R19: Distributed Consensus in the Presence of Sectional Faults
Amitanand Aiyer, Sanketh Indarapu, Srinathan Kannan, Vinod Vaikuntanathan, C. Pandu Rangan

R20: Efficient Player-Optimal Protocols for Strong and Differential Consensus
Matthias Fitzi, Juan Garay

BA8: Tight Bounds for k-Set Agreement with Limited-Scope Failure Detectors
Maurice Herlihy, Lucia Penso

BA9: Early Decision Despite General Process Omission Failures
Fabrice Le Fessant, Philippe Raipin Parvedy, Michel Raynal

3:25pm - 3:45pm Break
3:45pm - 4:45pm

Invited Talk 3
Title: TBA
Butler Lampson, Microsoft Research
4:45pm - 6:30pm Session 8 (Security) - Chair: Juan Garay

R21: Proactive Secure Message Transmission in Asynchronous Networks
Michael Backes, Christian Cachin, Reto Strobl

R22: Efficient Reliable Communication over Partially Authenticated Networks
Amos Beimel, Lior Malka

R23: Algorithms for Dynamic Multicast Key Distribution Trees
Justin Goshi, Richard Ladner

BA10: Efficient Perfect Communication over Synchronous Networks
K. Srinathan, V. Vinod, C. Pandu Rangan

BA11: Building Data Structures on Untrusted Peer-to-Peer Storage with Per-participant Logs
Benjie Chen, Robert Morris

BA12: Extending SQL Security to Derived and Distributed Data
Arnon Rosenthal, Edward Sciore

6:30pm - 7:45pm Cocktail Reception - Courtyard
7:45pm - 9:30pm Banquet (with speeches and award presentations) - Ballroom


July 16, 2003 - Wednesday

8:00am - 8:30am Breakfast (provided by PODC)
8:30am - 9:30am Invited Talk 4
Title: Simple and Fast Optimistic Protocols for Fair Electronic Exchange
Silvio Micali, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
9:30am - 10:20am Session 9 - Chair: Amir Herzberg

R24: A Work-Optimal Deterministic Algorithm for the Asynchronous Certified Write-All Problem
Grzegorz Malewicz

R25: Performing Work with Asynchronous Processors: Message-Delay-Sensitive Bounds
Dariusz Kowalski, Alex Shvartsman

10:20 - 10:40 Break
10:40am - 12:05pm Session 10 - Chair: Vassos Hadzilacos

R26: Fair Group Mutual Exclusion
Prasad Jayanti, Srdjan Petrovic, King Tan

R27: Efficient and Practical Constructions of LL/SC Variables
Prasad Jayanti, Srdjan Petrovic

R28: Adaptive and Efficient Abortable Mutual Exclusion
Prasad Jayanti

BA13: Automatic Discovery of Mutual Exclusion Algorithms
Yoah Bar-David, Gadi Taubenfeld

12:05pm - 1:25pm Lunch (provided by PODC)
1:25pm - 3:00pm Session 11 - Chair: Sergio Rajsbaum

R29: On Implementing Omega with Weak Reliability and Synchrony Assumptions
Marcos Aguilera, Carole Delporte-Gallet, Hugues Fauconnier, Sam Toueg

R30: On Using Network Attached Disks as Shared Memory
Marcos Aguilera, Burkhard Englert, Eli Gafni

R31: A Lattice-Theoretic Characterization of Safety and Liveness
Panagiotis Manolios, Richard Trefler

BA14: Branching Time Refinement
Panagiotis Manolios

BA15: Efficient Replication of Large Data Objects
Rui Fan, Nancy Lynch

3:00pm - 3:20pm Break
3:20pm - 5:10pm Session 12 - Chair: Boaz Patt-Shamir

BA16: Efficient Flooding in Power-Law Networks
Farnoush Banaei-Kashani, Cyrus Shahabi

R32: Scaling Properties of the Internet Graph
Aditya Akella, Shuchi Chawla, Arvind Kannan, Srinivasan Seshan

R33: On a Network Creation Game
Alex Fabrikant, Ankur Luthra, Elitza Maneva, Christos H. Papadimitriou, Scott Shenker

R34: Adaptive AIMD Congestion Control
Alexander Kesselman, Yishay Mansour

R35: Adapting to a Reliable Network Path
Baruch Awerbuch, Yishay Mansour

5:10pm Concluding Remarks, Conference adjourns
Sergio Rajsbaum, Program Committee Chair

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