5. SRDS 1986: Los Angeles, CA, USA

Invited Distinguished Speakers

• Jim Gray: Why Do Computers Stop and What Can Be Done About It? 3-12
• Hector Garcia-Molina: The Future of Data Replication. 13-19
• H. Raymond Strong: Problems in Maintaining Agreement. 20-27
• Gérard Le Lann: Issues in Fault-Tolerant Real-Time Local Area Networks. 28-32

Session I

• Hermann Kopetz: Accuracy of Time Measurement in Distributed Real Time Systems. 35-41
• Martin S. McKendry, Maurice Herlihy: Time-Driven Orphan Elimination. 42-48
• Wesley W. Chu, Jung M. An: Fault Tolerant Locking (FTL) for Tightly Coupled Systems. 49-55

Session II

• Richard D. Schlichting, Titus D. M. Purdin: Failure Handling in Distributed Programming Languages. 59-66
• W. Kent Fuchs, Kun-Lung Wu, Jacob A. Abraham: Low-Cost Comparison and Diagnosis of Large Remotely Located Files. 67-73
• Yves Deswarte, Jean-Charles Fabre, Jean-Claude Laprie, David Powell: A Saturation Network to Tolerate Faults and Intrusions. 74-81

Session III

• Sunil K. Sarin: Robust Application Design in Highly Available Distributed Databases. 87-94
• Frank M. Pittelli, Hector Garcia-Molina: Database Processing with Triple Modular Redundancy. 95-103
• T. V. Lakshman, Ashok K. Agrawala: O(N * sqrt(N)) Decentralized Commit Protocols. 104-110

Special Invited Lecture

• Brian Randell, John E. Dobson: Reliability and Security Issues in Distributed Computing Systems. 113-118

Session IVa

• David J. Taylor: How Big Can An Atomic Action Be? 121-124
• Tom Anderson: A Structured Decision Mechanism for Diverse Software. 125-129
• Fabrizio Baiardi, Marco Vanneschi: An Approach to Fault-Tolerance in Massive Parallelism Systems. 130-137

Session IVb

• Brian A. Coan, Cynthia Dwork: Simultaneity is Harder than Agreement. 141-150
• Kang G. Shin, Yann-Hang Lee: Optimal Checkpointing of Real-Time Tasks. 151-158
• K. H. Kim, Seung M. Yang: An Analysis of the Execution Overhead Inherent in the Conversation Scheme. 159-168

Session Va

• Donald F. Ferguson, Gautam Kar, Gerald Leitner, Christos Nikolaou: Relocating Processes in Distributed Computer Systems. 171-177
• Roberto Zicari: Operating System Support for Software Migration in a Distributed System. 178-187
• K. Ravindran, Samuel T. Chanson: State Inconsistency Issues in Local Area Network-Based Distributed Kernels. 188-195

Session Vb

• Sang Hyuk Son, Ashok K. Agrawala: A Token-Based Resiliency Control Scheme in Replicated Database Systems. 199-206
• Philip S. Yu, Balakrishna R. Iyer, Yann-Hang Lee: Transaction Recovery in Distributed DB/DC Systems: A Progressive Approach. 207-214
• Paul D. Ezhilchelvan, Santosh K. Shrivastava: A Characterisation of Faults in Systems. 215-222