The Distributed Computing Column
Panagiota Fatourou · 2013
Advances in Distributed Computing have been simply astonishing during the past few decades. The Distributed Computing Column of BEATCS aims in exposing the community to the most challenging and inspirational results of the field. The column has been edited for the last eight years by Marios Mavronicolas who did an excellent job on establishing it as a popular venue. Thanks to him but also, and more, to the invited authors who submitted remarkable contributions, the column was operating all these years with big success. My major objective is to continue projecting the most exciting developments in all areas of Distributed Computing onto the column. Of particular interest are hot, currently emerging topics and technologies, including multi-core algorithms and architectures, transactional memory and other synchronization techniques for ubiquitous parallel programming, self-adaptive, self-organizing and autonomic systems, sensor, mobile, mesh, ad-hoc and peer-to-peer networks and protocols, cluster and grid computing, social networks and game-theoretic approaches, se-curity, fault-tolerance, reliability, and many other stimulating subjects. Emphasis