Distributed Computing [electronic resource] : 15th International Conference, DISC 2001 Lisbon, Portugal, October 3–5, 2001 Proceedings / edited by Jennifer Welch.

A Time Complexity Bound for Adaptive Mutual Exclusion -- Quorum-Based Algorithms for Group Mutual Exclusion -- An Effective Characterization of Computability in Anonymous Networks -- Competitive Hill-Climbing Strategies for Replica Placement in a Distributed File System -- Optimal Unconditional Information Diffusion -- Computation Slicing: Techniques and Theory -- A Low-Latency Non-blocking Commit Service -- Stable Leader Election -- Adaptive Long-lived O(k 2)-Renaming with O(k 2) Steps -- A New Synchronous Lower Bound for Set Agreement -- The Complexity of Synchronous Iterative Do-All with Crashes -- Mobile Search for a Black Hole in an Anonymous Ring -- Randomised Mutual Search for k > 2 Agents -- Self-stabilizing Minimum Spanning Tree Construction on Message-Passing Networks -- Self Stabilizing Distributed Queuing -- A Space Optimal, Deterministic, Self-stabilizing, Leader Election Algorithm for Unidirectional Rings -- Randomized Finite-state Distributed Algorithms As Markov Chains -- The Average Hop Count Measure For Virtual Path Layouts -- Efficient Routing in Networks with Long Range Contacts -- An Efficient Communication Strategy for Ad-hoc Mobile Networks -- A Pragmatic Implementation of Non-blocking Linked-lists -- Stabilizing Replicated Search Trees -- Adding Networks.