Distributed Computing

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Distributed Computing, DISC 2000, held in Toledo, Spain in October 2000. The 23 revised full papers presented together with one invited contribution were carefully reviewed and selected from more than 100 submissions. The papers address a variety of current issues in distributed computing including mutual exclusion, distributed algorithms, protocols, approximation algorithms, distributed cooperation, electronic commerce, self-stabilizing algorithms, lower bounds, networking, broadcasting, Internet services, interconnection networks, distributed objects, CORBA, etc.