Maarten Van Steen - Böcker

For courses on Distributed Systems, Distributed Operating Systems, and Advanced Operating Systems focusing on distributed systems, found in departments of Computer Science, Computer Engineering and Electrical Engineering.

In this text, esteemed authors Tanenbaum and van Steen provide full coverage of the field in a systematic way that can be readily used for teaching. This text examines the underlying principles – and their applications to a wide variety of practical distributed systems.

This book constitutes revised selected papers from the 12th and 13th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science , CLOSER 2022 and CLOSER 2023, which took place as a virtual event in April 2022 and in Prague, Czech Republic, in April 2023.

This book constitutes revised selected papers from the 14th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science, CLOSER 2024, held in Angers, France, during May 2–4, 2024.The 7 full papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 48 submissions. They focus on current research trends in Cloud Computing and Services Science, including Microservices and their Management, Container Orchestration, Cloud Quality Management covering Security, Trust and Performance as critical concerns, and Edge Cloud Architectures.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems, OPODIS 2013, held in Nice, France, in December 2013. Papers were sought soliciting original research contributions to the theory, specification, design and implementation of distributed systems.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Web Content Caching and Distribution, WCW 2004, held in Beijing, China, in October 2004.The 15 revised full papers and 6 revised short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from more than 50 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on placement and redirection, structured overlays, architectural issues, multimedia caching, caching in peer-to-peer systems, algorithms, systems management, and systems evaluation.

Information systems can be complex due to numerous factors including scale, decentralization, heterogeneity, mobility, dynamism, bugs and failures. Depl- ing, operating and maintaining such systems can be not only very di?cult, but also very costly. A ?urry of recent activity has been directed at this pr- lem, and future information systems are envisioned as self-con?guring, se- organizing,self-managingandself-repairing.Collectively,wecalltheseproperties self- properties. This book is a "spin-o?" of a by-invitation-only Bertinoro workshop on se- propertiesincomplexsystemswhichwasheldinsummer2004inBertinoro,Italy. The Self-star workshop brought together researchers and practitioners from d- ferent disciplines and with di?erent backgrounds to discuss complex information systems.Thethemeoftheworkshopwastoidentifytheconceptualandpractical foundationsformodeling,analyzingandachievingself- propertiesindistributed and networked systems. Partly based on these discussions, we solicited papers from the workshop participants and a set of invitees for this book.We sought original contributions in which authors explicitly take a position concerningrequirements,usefulness,potentialandlimitations oftechnologies for self- properties of complex systems. This position needed to be founded on - search results that were put clearly in context with respect to the position sta- ment. We strongly encouraged visionary statements, thought-provoking ideas, and exploratory results that will help the reader form her or his own opinions on the importance of self- properties in current and future complex information systems.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the ACM/IFIP/USENIX 7th International Middleware Conference 2006, held in Melbourne, Australia, in November/December 2006. The 21 revised full papers are organized in topical sections on performance, composition, management, publish/subscribe technology, databases, mobile and ubiquitous computing, security, and data mining techniques.