From Idit Keidar
Two new SIGACT News Distributed Computing columns are now online.
The September column features a tutorial on distributed Computability:
“Computability in Distributed Computing: a Tutorial”
by Maurice Herlihy, Sergio Rajsbaum, and Michel Raynal.
The forthcoming (December) column reviews distributed computing events
in 2012. Specifically:
– “Transactional Memory: Beyond the First Two Decades”
(Dijkstra Award acceptance speech) by Maurice Herlihy and Nir Shavit
– “Principles of Distributed Computing Doctoral Dissertation Award”
– Review of PODC 2012 by Siddhartha Sen
– Review of DISC 2012 by Mika Goos
– Review of WTTM 2012 by Vincent Gramoli and Alessia Milani
As always, the columns are available online, both at the Technion:
http://www.ee.technion.ac.il/~idish/sigactNews
and at MIT:
http://people.csail.mit.edu/idish/sigactNews
Enjoy!
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A quick pointer to an interview with my former student Amitabh Trehan on his DISC paper “Dense Subgraphs on Dynamic Networks” .
This is a neat result in the dynamic graph setting where an adversary can add and delete edges in a graph, but the number of nodes is always fixed at n. One of their results is as follows. In the case where the maximum number of rounds that it takes a message to traverse the network is always polylog, they give a polylog time algorithm that allows each node to approximate within a constant factor the densest subgraph. This is in the CONGEST model where in each round, each node can send an O(log n) bit message to each neighbor.
