Topic 8: Distributed systems and algorithms

Abstract

Fifteen papers were submitted to Topic 8. Each paper was reviewed by four of the topic chairs (a single paper received only three reviews). Three papers were ranked clearly above the others and three others were discussed in more depth between the chairs. As a result, the chairs proposed three papers for acceptance, and two more for discussion, one of which was accepted by the PC meeting. It is interesting to note that none of the top papers is a "hard-core" distributed systems paper, i.e., this year, there will be no papers on consensus, fault tolerance, or distributed algorithms. Instead all four papers focus on applications of distributed systems. This is not due to any particular bias by the committee, but simply reflects the quality and the spectrum of the submissions we received. © 2008 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.