Proceedings 23rd International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING SYSTEMS//PROCEEDINGS)

Seventy-two papers from the May 2003 conference in Providence, Rhode Island represent recent research on self-stabilizing systems, sensor networks and energy management, distributed algorithms, multimedia streaming, secure data sharing, internet protocols, middleware, fault-tolerant systems, ubiquitous computing, network security, real-time systems, interoperability, ad hoc network protocols, peer-to- peer infrastructure, synchronization, wide area distributed computing, mobile agents, program/software analysis, wireless access control, scalable data services, and related topics. Summaries of keynote speeches are also included. Only authors appear in the index. Annotation (c) Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)