Book Description

DISC, the International Symposium on Distributed Computing, is an annual forum for presentation of research on all aspects of distributed computing, - cluding the theory, design, implementation and applications of distributed - gorithms, systems and networks. The 22nd edition of DISC was held during September 22-24, 2008, in Arcachon, France. There were 101 submissions submitted to DISC this year and this volume contains 33 15-page-long regular papers selected by the Program Committee among these submissions. Every submitted paper was read and evaluated by ProgramCommittee membersassistedby externalreviewers.The ?nal decisions regarding acceptance or rejection of each paper were made during the electronic Program Committee meeting held during June 2008. Revised and expanded versions of a few best selected papers will be considered for publication in a special issue of the journal Distributed Computing. The Program Committee selected Robert Danek and Wojciech Golab as the recipientsofthis year'sBestPaperAwardfortheir paper “Closingthe Compl- ity Gap Between FCFS Mutual Exclusion and Mutual Exclusion.”The Program Committee selected Wojciech Wawrzyniak as the recipient of this year's Best Student Paper Award for the paper “Fast Distributed Approximations in P- nar Graphs” coauthored with Andrzej Czygrinow and Michal Han´ ´ckowiak.