PODC '95 agenda and technical program
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Sunday, August 20
3:00-5:00 pm - Pre-conference Presentation (MACDONALD ROOM)
Results by Algorithmic Reasoning
- Eli Gafni (UCLA)
7:00-10:00 pm - Reception (BANQUET ROOM)
Monday, August 21
9:00 am - Invited Lecture (DRAWING ROOM)
Fundamental challenges in mobile computing
- Mahadev Satyanarayanan (CMU)
10:00 am - Break
Session L1. Chair: Yoram Moses (DRAWING ROOM)
10:20 Universal fault-local mending
Shay Kutten (IBM Watson) and David
Peleg (Weizmann Institute)
10:45 Sub-linear distributed algorithms for sparse certificates and biconnected components
Ramakrishna Thurimella (University of Denver)
11:10 Faster computation on directed networks of automata
Rafail Ostrovsky and Daniel Wilkerson (Berkeley)
11:35 Distributed dynamic
channel allocation for mobile computing
Ravi Prakash (Ohio State University),
Niranjan G. Shivaratri (NEC) and Mukesh Singhal (Ohio State University)
12:00 - Lunch (on your own)
Session B1. Chair: Yehuda Afek (DRAWING ROOM)
2:00 A modular measure of competitiveness for distributed algorithms
- James Aspnes (Yale) and
Orli Waarts (Berkeley)
2:10 Randomized competitive algorithms for admission control in general networks
- Vaggelis Kapoulas and Paul Spirakis (Computer Technology Institute at Patras)
2:20 Log-space polynomial end-to-end communication
- Eyal Kushilevitz (Technion), Rafail Ostrovsky (Berkeley) and Adi Ros\'en (Tel Aviv University)
2:30 SuperStabilizing protocols for dynamic distributed systems
- Shlomi Dolev (Texas A&M University) and
Ted Herman (University of Iowa)
2:40 Self-stabilizing clock synchronization in the presence of Byzantine faults
- Shlomi Dolev and Jennifer Welch (Texas A&M University)
Securing the internet
- Pau-Chen Cheng, Juan A Garay, Amir Herzberg and Hugo Krawczyk (IBM Watson)
3:00 The RAPID C++ environment
- M. Abayan (MIT), R. Strong (IBM Almaden) and E. Wimmers (IBM Almaden)
3:10 Architecture decisions for wide-area applications
- Michael Ogg and
Aleta Ricciardi
(University of Texas at Austin)
3:20 A sequencing service for group communication
- Tim Kindberg (University of London)
3:30 - Coffee Break
Session L2. Chair: Tushar Chandra (DRAWING ROOM)
3:50
Collecting Cyclic Distributed Garbage Using Heuristics to Control Migration
- Umesh Maheshwari and Barbara Liskov (MIT)
This paper won the best student paper award
4:15 On distributed object checkpointing and recovery
- Manhoi Choy, Hong V. Leong and Man Hon Wong (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
4:40 On the
Relevance of Communication Costs of Rollback-Recovery Protocols
- E.N.
Elnozahy (CMU)
5:05 A
Framework for Protocol Composition in Horus
- Robbert van Renesse,
Kenneth P. Birman,
Roy Friedman, Mark Hayden, and David A. Karr (Cornell)
6:00 - Banquet (RENAISSANCE ROOM)
Tuesday, August 22
Session L3. Chair: Soma Chaudhuri (DRAWING ROOM)
9:00 Algebraic spans
- Maurice Herlihy (Brown)
and Sergio Rajsbaum (MIT)
9:25 Failure detectors
and the wait-free hierarchy
- Gil Neiger (Intel)
9:50 More on t-resilience vs. wait-freedom
- Wai-Kau Lo (University of Toronto)
10:15 - Coffee Break
Session L4. Chair: Hagit Attiya (DRAWING ROOM)
10:45 Crumbling walls: a class of practical and efficient quorum systems
David Peleg
and Avishai Wool
(Weizmann Institute)
11:10 Achieving independence
efficiently and securely
Rosario Gennaro (MIT)
11:35
Lower Bounds for Convergence Function Based Clock
Synchronization
Christof Fetzer
and Flaviu Cristian (University of California at San Diego)
12:00 - Conference Luncheon (CANADIAN ROOM)
Session B2. Chair: Joseph Halpern (DRAWING ROOM)
1:30 Prediction based task scheduling in distributed computing
- Mehrdad Samadani and Erich Kaltofen (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
1:40 Scheduling in client-server systems
- Shikharesh Majumdar and Tom Phillips (Carleton University)
1:50 Deriving optimal checkpoint protocols for distributed shared memory architectures
- Lorenzo Alvisi (Cornell) and Keith Marzullo (University of California at San Diego)
2:00 Active client primary-backup protocols
- Parvathi Chundi, Ragini Narasimhan, Daniel J. Rosenkrantz and S.S. Ravi (SUNY at Albany)
2:10 A
View-Based Approach to Relaxing Global Serializability in a Multidatabase System
- Evaggelia Pitoura (Purdue),
Aidong Zhang (SUNY at Buffalo),
and Bharat Bhargava (Purdue)
2:20 Constraint-based structuring of distributed protocols
- Gurdip Singh (Kansas State University)
2:30 Generalizing fair reachability analysis to protocols with arbitrary topology
- Hans van der Schoot and Hasan Ural (University of Ottawa)
2:40 Compiling knowledge-based programs
- Aamod Sane and Roy Campbell (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
2:50 A calculus for concurrent update
- Gordon V. Cormack (University of Waterloo)
3:00 - Coffee Break
Session L5. Chair: Gadi Taubenfeld (DRAWING ROOM)
3:20 Reasoning about Meta Level
Activities in Open Distributed Systems
- Nalini Venkatasubramanian (HP labs) and
Carolyn Talcott (Stanford)
3:45 Knowledge-Based Programs
- Ronald Fagin (IBM Almaden), Joseph Y. Halpern (IBM Almaden), Yoram Moses (Weizmann)
and Moshe Y. Vardi (Rice).
4:10 Formal semantics for expressing optimism: the meaning of HOPE
- Crispin Cowan (Oregon Graduate Institute) and Hanan Lutfiyya (University of Western Ontario)
4:35 Formal verification of timed properties for randomized distributed algorithms
- Anna Pogosyants and Roberto Segala (MIT)
8:00 - Business Meeting and Rump Session: (MACDONALD ROOM)
Wednesday, August 23
9:00 Invited Lecture (DRAWING ROOM)
Atomicity and electronic commerce
- Doug Tygar (CMU)
10:00 - Coffee Break
Session L6. Chair: Prasad Jayanti (DRAWING ROOM)
10:20 Universal
Constructions for Multi-Object Operations
- James Anderson and Mark Moir (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
10:45 Long-lived renaming made fast
- Harry Buhrman (CWI Amsterdam),
Juan A. Garay (IBM Watson),
Jaap-Henk Hoepman (CWI Amsterdam)
and Mark Moir (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
11:10
Software transactional memory
- Nir Shavit (Tel Aviv University and MIT) and Dan Touitou (Tel Aviv University)
11:35 Lock-free linked lists using compare-and-swap
- John D. Valois (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
12:00 - Lunch (on your own)
2:00 Lazy-writer multivalued registers
- Martha J. Kosa (Tennessee Technological University)
2:10 3-processor tasks are undecidable
- Eli Gafni and Elias Koutsoupias (UCLA)
2:20 Using Lock-Free Objects in Hard Real-Time Applications
- James Anderson and
Srikanth Ramamurthy (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
2:30 Complete implementations for shared memory consistency conditions
- Jerry James and Ambuj Singh (University of California at Santa Barbara)
2:40 Load balancing networks
- Sarantos Kapidakis (University of Crete) and Marios Mavronicolas (University of Cyprus)
2:50 A logarithmic depth counting network
- Costas Busch (University of Crete) and Marios Mavronicolas (University of Cyprus)
3:00 - Coffee Break
Session L7. Chair: Amir Herzberg (DRAWING ROOM)
3:20 Memory
requirement for universal routing schemes
- Pierre Fraigniaud and Cyril Gavoille
(Ecole Normale Sup\'erieure de Lyon)
3:45
Optimal distributed algorithm for minimum spanning trees revisited
- Michalis Faloutsos
(University of Toronto) and
Mart Molle
(University of California at Riverside)
4:10 Fast distributed construction of k-dominating sets and applications
- Shay Kutten (IBM Watson)
and David Peleg
(Weizmann Institute)
4:35 - Closing of the conference
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