| This volume contains the accepted papers from the 3rd International School
and Symposium on Advanced Distributed Systems held in Guadalajara, Mexico,
January 24–30, 2004. This event was organized by the teams made up of members
of CINVESTAV Guadalajara, CUCEI, the Computer Science Department of
the Centre of Research and Advances Studies at the CUCEA campus of the
University of Guadalajara, Mexico, the University of Rostock, Germany and
ITESO, Guadalajara. The ISSADS symposium provides a forum for scientists
and people from industry to discuss the progress of applications and theory of
distributed systems. This year there were over 300 participants from 3 continents,
among which about 20 percent came from industry.
The conference program consisted of 25 accepted papers out of 46 submissions
and covered several aspects of distributed systems from hardware and system
level up to different applications. These papers were selected by a peer review
process, in which each paper was evaluated by at least three members of the
international program committee.
In addition, the three invited speakers, Adolfo Guzman Arenas, Yakup Parker
and Joaquin Vila, presented interesting overviews to current development and
research directions in distributed systems. Furthermore, eight tutorials and four
industrial forums from IBM, INTEL, HP and SUN enabled the participants to
extend their knowledge in selected areas. A panel, which was organized by a
team composed of researchers from the Universidad de Guadalajara and focused
on traffic control and simulation, also demonstrated the practical application of
recent research in distributed systems to the problems of Guadalajara. |
