Track: Software Technology
Minitrack: Architectures for Distributed Systems

As the global Internet extends its reach with both backbone and "to the edge" bandwidth increasing with a concomitant drop in latency, the deployment of globally distributed services has become a reality. Popular deployed examples each with a different distributed architecture and two of which are opensource are Skype that spans the globe and consistently has between seven and ten million active users; Second Life's 3-D world; SETI@Home's "BOINC" computational Grid, and Bittorrent's Content Distribution Network. Realizing there are many possible architectures and methodologies for distributed systems, including agent-oriented and resource-oriented architectures, Peer-to-Peer architectures, Grids, client-server, and hybrid systems that combine the qualities of two or more of these, this minitrack will explore the relative merits of different distributed architectures from an interdisciplinary perspective by bringing together participants with technology backgrounds, practitioners from industry, members of open source communities, and researchers to discuss and evaluate the technology.

Topics and research areas include, but are not limited to:
* Programming distributed systems, including agent, p2p, and RESTful systems

Co-chairs:
William J. Yeager (Primary Contact)
620 Berkeley Avenue, Menlo Park, CA. 94025, USA
Phone: +1-650-329-8873
Fax: +1-650-323-1983
Email: byeager@fastmail.fm

Ali Ghodsi
KTH/Royal Institute of Technology and
Swedish Institute of Computer Science (SICS)
Box 1263, S-164 29 KISTA, Sweden
Phone: +46-8-633-1599
FAX: +46-8-751-7230
Email: ali@sics.se

Sam Joseph
Department of Information and Computer Science
University of Hawaii at Manoa
1680 East West Road, Post 309, Honolulu, Hawaii 96822, USA
Phone: +1-808-956-2761
Fax: +1808-956-3548
Email: srjoseph@hawaii.edu