Distributed Computing Column of
BEATCS
Letter by the Editor - Panagiota Fatourou
Advances in Distributed Computing have been simply astonishing during the past
few decades. The Distributed Computing Column of
BEATCS aims in exposing the
community to the most challenging and inspirational results of the field. The
column had been edited until the end of 2008 by Marios Mavronicolas who did
an excellent job on establishing it as a popular venue. Thanks to him but also,
and more, to the invited authors who submitted remarkable contributions, the
column was operating all these years with big success.
My major objective is to continue projecting the most exciting developments in
all areas of Distributed Computing onto the column. Of particular interest are
hot, currently emerging topics and technologies, including multi-core algorithms
and architectures, transactional memory and other synchronization techniques for
ubiquitous parallel programming, self-adaptive, self-organizing and autonomic
systems, sensor, mobile, mesh, ad-hoc and peer-to-peer networks and protocols,
cluster and grid computing, social networks and game-theoretic approaches,
security, fault-tolerance, reliability, and many other stimulating subjects.
Emphasis will also be given to the foundations of distributed computing.
Concluding, let me welcome you to the Column and encourage your submission of
articles and other material. I especially welcome surveys providing new insight
on fundamental topics of distributed computing, articles describing open
problems in challenging areas of the field, and any other material that can
bring new, inspirational problems and techniques under the attention of the
community. I would be interested to also host reviews of the main conferences or
of other interesting events in the field.
Suggestions can be sent to me by e-mail (
).
Coming Articles
- The January 2011 article will be on "Failure Detectors for the k-set
Agreement Problem" by Michel Raynal.
Published Articles
2010
- "Reconfiguring Replicated Atomic Storage" by Marcos K. Aguilera, Idit Keidar, Dahlia Malkhi,
Jean-Philippe Martin, and Alexander Shraer, Issue Number
102,
October
2010, pp. 83-108.
- "The Origin of Quorum Systems" by Marco Vukolic, Issue Number
101, June
2010, pp. 125-147.
- "Robust Simulation of Shared Memory: 20 Years After" by H. Attiya,
Issue Number
100,
February 2010, pp. 99-113.
2009
The issues of this year have been devoted to Transactional Memory (TM),
the most promising simplification for expressing parallelism which is currently
the major obstacle in taking full advantage of the presently dominated
multi-core chip design.
- "The Theory of Transactional Memory", by R. Guerraoui and M. Kapalka,
Number 97,
February 2009, pp.83-105.
- "Transactional Memory: A Primer for Theorists", by M. Herlihy,
Number 98,
June 2009, pp. 123-138.
- "Composable Error Recovery With Transactional Memory", by T. Riegel,
P. Felber, C. Fetzer, Issue Number
99, October
2009, pp. 105-133.
Enjoy reading!
Deadlines - How to Submit
Deadlines for submissions of manuscripts are January, May and
September 5th, respectively for the February, June and October
issues.
The appropriate style files and other information on how to submit
are provided
here.
Suggestions can be sent to me by e-mail (
).
Acknowledgements
I am grateful to the authors of the above articles for their very interesting
contributions.
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DST 2010, by Panagiota Fatourou