Publisher's Synopsis
This book consitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Distributed Computing, DISC 2001, held in Lisbon, Portugal, in October 2001.;The 23 revised papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 70 submissions.;Among the issues addressed are mutual exclusion, anonymous networks, distributed files systems, information diffusion, computation slicing, commit services, renaming, mobile search, randomized mutual search, message-passing networks, distributed queueing, leader election algorithms, Markov chains, network routing, ad-hoc mobile networks, and adding networks.
