20th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems

Book excerpt: Proceedings of the April 2000 conference on distributed computing systems. Following the opening plenary address on the post-PC era, 187 papers and keynote addresses discuss mobile agents, adaptive communications, multimedia systems, network management, clustered architecture, market-based computing and agent organizations, QoS management, distributed scheduling, web performance, communication protocols, distributed system architecture, group communication, file management, internet computing, mobile communication and environment, fault tolerance techniques, distributed services, fault recovery, distributed algorithms, cluster performance, web-based applications, design with distributed algorithm, and architectural supports. Three panel discussions address VoIP engineering, information appliances, and E-commerce on the Web. Lacks a subject index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.