20. ICDCS 2000: Taipei, Taiwan

Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, 10-13 April 2000, Taipei, Taiwan. IEEE Computer Society, 2000, online publication: http://www.computer.org/proceedings/icdcs/0601/0601toc.htm

Mobile Agents

Pauli Misikangas, Kimmo E. E. Raatikainen:
Agent Migration between Incompatible Agent Platforms. 4-10
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Hairong Kuang, Lubomir Bic, Michael B. Dillencourt:
Paradigm-Oriented Distributed Computing using Mobile Agents. 11-19
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Markus Straßer, Kurt Rothermel:
System Mechanisms for Partial Rollback of Mobile Agent Execution. 20-28
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Adaptive Communications

Prashant Pradhan, Tzi-cker Chiueh, Anindya Neogi:
Aggregate TCP Congestion Control using Multiple Network Probing. 30-37
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Luís Rodrigues, Katherine Guo:
Partitionable Light-Weight Groups. 38-45
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Kazumasa Oida, K. Shinjo:
Deterministic Optimal Routing for Two Heterogeneous Parallel Servers. 46-53
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Multimedia Systems

Wu-chi Feng, Ming Liu:
Critical Bandwidth Allocation Techniques for Stored Video Delivery across Best-Effort Networks. 56-63
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Cheng-Fu Chou, Leana Golubchik, John C. S. Lui:
Striping Doesn't Scale: How to Achieve Scalability for Continuous Media Servers with Replication. 64-71
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G. Todesco, Regina Borges de Araujo:
MPEG-4 Support to Multiuser Virtual Environments. 72-79
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Network Management

Hirohisa Mori, Ken Sakamura:
A New Network Layer Protocol with Routing Address and Tables Auto-Configuration Mechanism. 84-96
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Mitchell D. Theys, Noah Beck, Howard Jay Siegel, Michael Jurczyk, Min Tan:
Scheduling Heuristics for Data Requests in an Oversubscribed Network with Priorities and Deadlines. 97-109
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Peerapol Tinnakornsrisuphap, Wu-chun Feng, Ian R. Philp:
On the Burstiness of the TCP Congestion-Control Mechanism in a Distributed Computing System. 110-117
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Clustered Architecture

Roy S. C. Ho, Kai Hwang, Hai Jin:
Design and Analysis of Clusters with Single I/O Space. 120-127
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Mihai Surdeanu:
Distributed Java Virtual Machine for Message Passing Architectures. 128-135
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Tzi-cker Chiueh, Prashant Pradhan:
Suez: A Cluster-based Scalable Real-Time Packet Router. 136-143
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Market-based Computing and Agent Organizations

Makoto Yokoo, Yuko Sakurai, Shigeo Matsubara:
The Effect of False-name Declarations in Mechanism Design: Towards Collective Decision Making on the Internet. 146-153
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Martin Andersson, Tuomas Sandholm:
Contract Type Sequencing for Reallocative Negotiation. 154-160
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Ichiro Satoh:
MobileSpaces: A Framework for Building Adaptive Distributed Applications using a Hierarchical Mobile Agent System. 161-168
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Makoto Yokoo, Katsutoshi Hirayama:
The Effect of Nogood Learning in Distributed Constraint Satisfaction. 169-177
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QoS Management

Byung-Kyu Choi, Dong Xuan, Chengzhi Li, Riccardo Bettati, Wei Zhao:
Scalable QoS Guaranteed Communication Services for Real-Time Applications. 180-187
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Raghupathy Sivakumar, Tae-eun Kim, Narayanan Venkitaraman, Jia-Ru Li, Vaduvur Bharghavan:
Achieving Per-Flow Weighted Rate Fairness in a Core Stateless Network. 188-196
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Frank Siqueira, Vinny Cahill:
Quartz: A QoS Architecture for Open Systems. 197-204
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Distributed Scheduling

Tei-Wei Kuo, Kwei-Jay Lin, Yu-Chung Wang:
An Open Real-Time Environment for Parallel and Distributed Systems. 206-213
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Mor Harchol-Balter:
Task Assignment with Unknown Duration. 214-224
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Fabrizio Petrini, Wu-chun Feng:
Scheduling with Global Information in Distributed Systems. 225-232
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Xiaodong Zhang, Yanxia Qu, Li Xiao:
Improving Distributed Workload Performance by Sharing both CPU and Memory Resources. 233-241
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Web Performance

Sourav S. Bhowmick, Sanjay Kumar Madria, Wee Keong Ng, Ee-Peng Lim:
Detecting and Representing Relevant Web Deltas using Web Join. 246-253
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Azer Bestavros, Shudong Jin:
Popularity-Aware Greedy Dual-Size Web Proxy Caching Algorithms. 254-261
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Cho-Yu Chiang, Yingjie Li, Ming T. Liu, Mervin E. Muller:
On Request Forwarding for Dynamic Web Caching Hierarchies. 262-269
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Communication Protocols

Chung-Ming Huang, Hsu-Yang Kung, Jiong-Liang Yang:
PARK: A Paused-And-Run K-Stream Multimedia Synchronization Control Scheme. 272-279
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Zheng-Ru Lin, Ming-Syan Chen:
An Asymptotically Optimal Multi-Layered Decentralized Consensus Protocol with an Initiator. 280-287
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Luís Rodrigues, Michel Raynal:
Atomic Broadcast in Asynchronous Crash-Recovery Distributed Systems. 288-295
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Distributed System Architecture

Khalil Amiri, Garth A. Gibson, Richard A. Golding:
Highly Concurrent Shared Storage. 298-307
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Kenji Kono, Takashi Masuda:
Efficient RMI: Dynamic Specialization of Object Serialization. 308-315
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Chengzheng Sun, David Chen:
A Multi-version Approach to Conflict Resolution in Distributed Groupware Systems. 316-325
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Group Communication

Jonathan Robert Stanton, Yair Amir, Damian Hasse, Giuseppe Ateniese, Yongdae Kim, Cristina Nita-Rotaru, Theo Schlossnagle, John L. Schultz, Gene Tsudik:
Secure Group Communication in Asynchronous Networks with Failures: Integration and Experiments. 330-343
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Idit Keidar, Roger Khazan:
A Client-Server Approach to Virtually Synchronous Group Multicast: Specifications and Algorithms. 344-355
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Idit Keidar, Jeremy B. Sussman, Keith Marzullo, Danny Dolev:
A Client-Server Oriented Algorithm for Virtually Synchronous Group Membership in WANs. 356-365
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File Management

Jiong Yang, Wei Wang, Richard R. Muntz, Silvia Nittel:
Dynamic Adaptive File Management in a Local Area Network. 368-375
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Takahiro Hara, Kaname Harumoto, Masahiko Tsukamoto, Shojiro Nishio:
Dynamic Replica Allocation using Database Migration in Broadband Networks. 376-384
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Thanasis Loukopoulos, Ishfaq Ahmad:
Static and Adaptive Data Replication Algorithms for Fast Information Access in Large Distributed Systems. 385-392
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Internet Computing

Tzi-cker Chiueh, Harish Sankaran, Anindya Neogi:
Spout: A Transparent Distributed Execution Engine for Java Applets. 394-401
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Neeran M. Karnik, Anand R. Tripathi:
A Security Architecture for Mobile Agents in Ajanta. 402-409
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Fritz Hohl:
A Framework to Protect Mobile Agents by using Reference States. 410-417
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Mobile Communication

Takashi Watanabe, Akifumi Mori, Yukihisa Yamamoto:
Mobile Cache Protocol: A Dynamic Object Relocation Protocol for Wide Area Networks. 420-427
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Asimava Bera, Nabanita Das:
Performance Analysis of Dynamic Location Updation Strategies for Mobile Users. 428-435
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Taesoon Park, Heon Young Yeom:
An Asynchronous Recovery Scheme based on Optimistic Message Logging for Mobile Computing Systems. 436-443
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Chi-Wai Lin, Dik Lun Lee:
Adaptive Data Delivery in Wireless Communication Environments. 444-452
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Fault Tolerance Techniques

Burkhard Englert, Alexander A. Shvartsman:
Graceful Quorum Reconfiguration in a Robust Emulation of Shared Memory. 454-463
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Fernando Pedone, Matthias Wiesmann, André Schiper, Bettina Kemme, Gustavo Alonso:
Understanding Replication in Databases and Distributed Systems. 464-474
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Srivatsan Varadarajan, Hung Q. Ngo, Jaideep Srivastava:
An Adaptive, Perception-Driven Error Spreading Scheme in Continuous Media Streaming. 475-483
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Jun Zhou, Kuo-Chung Tai:
Deadlock Analysis of Client/Server Programs. 484-491
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Distributed Services

Christos Bouras, Vaggelis Kapoulas, Agisilaos Konidaris, Afrodite Sevasti:
A Dynamic Distributed Video on Demand Service. 496-503
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Zahir Tari, Gregory Craske:
A Query Propagation Approach to Improve CORBA Trading Service Scalability. 504-511
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Dongyan Xu, Duangdao Wichadakul, Klara Nahrstedt:
Multimedia Service Configuration and Reservation in Heterogeneous Environments. 512-519
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Mobile Environment

Ken C. K. Lee, Hong Va Leong, Antonio Si:
A Semantic Broadcast Scheme for a Mobile Environment based on Dynamic Chunking. 522-529
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Anurag Kahol, Ramandeep Singh Khurana, Sandeep K. S. Gupta, Pradip K. Srimani:
An Efficient Cache Maintenance Scheme for Mobile Environment. 530-537
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Antonio Si, Hong Va Leong, Dennis McLeod, Stanley M. T. Yau:
On Supporting Weakly-Connected Browsing in a Mobile Web Environment. 538-546
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Fault Recovery

Ann T. Tai, Kam S. Tso, Leon Alkalai, Savio N. Chau, William H. Sanders:
On Low-Cost Error Containment and Recovery Methods for Guarded Software Upgrading. 548-555
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Angkul Kongmunvattana, Santipong Tanchatchawal, Nian-Feng Tzeng:
Coherence-based Coordinated Checkpointing for Software Distributed Shared Memory Systems. 556-563
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Eugene Gendelman, Lubomir Bic, Michael B. Dillencourt:
An Application-Transparent, Platform-Independent Approach to Rollback-Recovery for Mobile Agent Systems. 564-571
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Distributed Algorithms

Ajoy Kumar Datta, Shivashankar Gurumurthy, Franck Petit, Vincent Villain:
Self-Stabilizing Network Orientation Algorithms in Arbitrary Rooted Networks. 576-583
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Jean-Michel Hélary, Michel Hurfin, Achour Mostéfaoui, Michel Raynal, Frederic Tronel:
Computing Global Functions in Asynchronous Distributed Systems Prone to Process Crashes. 584-591
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Ten-Hwang Lai, Jianping Jiang, Tao Ma:
A Relaxed Mutual Exclusion Problem with Application to Channel Allocation in Mobile Cellular Networks. 592-599
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Cluster Performance

Hung-Chang Hsiao, Chung-Ta King:
Boosting the Performance of NOW-based Shared Memory Multiprocessors through Directory Hints. 602-609
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Weiping Zhu, Brett D. Fleisch:
Performance Evaluation of Soft Real-Time Scheduling for Multicomputer Cluster. 610-617
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Jerzy Brzezinski, Dariusz Wawrzyniak:
Consistency Requirements of Distributed Shared Memory for Dijkstra's Mutual Exclusion Algorithm. 618-625
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Web-based Applications

Ming-Ling Lo, Kun-Lung Wu, Philip S. Yu:
TabSum: A Flexible and Dynamic Table Summarization Approach. 628-635
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Tamer I. Ibrahim, Cheng-Zhong Xu:
Neural Nets based Predictive Prefetching to Tolerate WWW Latency. 636-643
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Yi-Hung Wu, Arbee L. P. Chen:
Index Structures of User Profiles for Efficient Web Page Filtering Services. 644-673
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Design with Distributed Algorithm

Hann-Huei Chiou, Alexander I-Chi Lai, Chin-Laung Lei:
Prediction-Capable Data Compression Algorithms for Improving Transmission Efficiency on Distributed Systems. 654-661
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Ursula Fissgus:
Scheduling using Genetic Algorithms. 662-669
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Li-Hsing Yen:
Precluding Useless Events for On-Line Global Predicate Detections. 670-677
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Architectural Supports

Partha Dasgupta, Ayal Itzkovitz, Vijay Karamcheti:
Active Files: A Mechanism for Integrating Legacy Applications into Distributed Systems. 680-690
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Chu-Sing Yang, Mon-Yen Luo:
A Content Placement and Management System for Distributed Web-Server Systems. 691-698
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Gurudatt Shenoy, Suresh K. Satapati, Riccardo Bettati:
HYDRANET-FT: Network Support for Dependable Services. 699-706
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