The First International Workshop on Cooperative Distributed Systems (CDS'07)
Elhadi Shakshuki, Tomasz Müldner · 2007
Most real world systems and applications are inherently distributed. Distributed systems provide extensibility, protection against single failures, and an adequate architecture to cope with spatially distributed real-world applications. These systems are widely used in distributed databases, telecommunication, groupware, security, monitoring habitat and education. The challenge in developing CDS systems is in modelling and engineering the interactions between the entities of the system. The aim of this workshop is to provide a forum for academic and industry professionals to discuss recent progress and challenges in the area of cooperative distributed systems. We received 18 papers out of which 10 papers were accepted by the Program Committee for publication in the proceedings of ICDCS 2007. The selected papers cover topics such as: P2Prelated topics, including groupware framework based on operational transformations, enhancing neighborship consistency, public key management framework, and virtual learning communities on the grid; topics related to mobile devices, including collaborative distributed admission control, an algorithm for load balancing, and an enterprise messaging middleware; and general distributed computing topics, including multi-agent cooperative design support, overlay structures to support range query, and coordination in disaster management and response.