Distributed Computing: 19th International Conference, DISC 2005, Cracow, Poland, September 26-29, 2005, Proceedings

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Distributed Computing, DISC 2005, held in Cracow, Poland, in September 2005.

The 32 revised full papers selected from 162 submissions are presented together with 14 brief announcements of ongoing works chosen from 30 submissions; all of them were carefully selected for inclusion in the book. The entire scope of current issues in distributed computing is addressed, ranging from foundational and theoretical topics to algorithms and systems issues and to applications in various fields.