Download or read book 20th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems written by and published by Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers(IEEE). This book was released on 2000 with total page 762 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Proceedings of the April 2000 conference on distributed computing systems. Following the opening plenary address on the post-PC era, 187 papers and keynote addresses discuss mobile agents, adaptive communications, multimedia systems, network management, clustered architecture, market-based computing and agent organizations, QoS management, distributed scheduling, web performance, communication protocols, distributed system architecture, group communication, file management, internet computing, mobile communication and environment, fault tolerance techniques, distributed services, fault recovery, distributed algorithms, cluster performance, web-based applications, design with distributed algorithm, and architectural supports. Three panel discussions address VoIP engineering, information appliances, and E-commerce on the Web. Lacks a subject index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.