Publisher's Synopsis
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Distributed Computing, DISC 2004, held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, in October 2004.;The 31 revised full papers presented together with an extended abstract of an invited lecture and an eulogy for Peter Ruzicka were carefully reviewed and selected from 142 submissions.;The entire scope of current issues in distributed computing is addressed, ranging from foundational and theoretical topics to algorithms and systems issues to applications in various fields.
