Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics): Introduction

Parallel computing is increasingly exposed to the development and challenges of distributed systems, such as asynchrony, long latencies, failures, network partitions, mobility, heterogeneity, malicious and selfish behavior, disconnected operations, the lack of load balancing, and many others. Furthermore, distributed systems are becoming larger, more diverse and more dynamic, for example, in terms of highly dynamic number of participants and topology changes. The Euro-Par topic dedicated to distributed systems and algorithms provides a forum for research and practice, of interest to both academia and industry, to present and discuss novel approaches in distributed computing and to explore relations between parallel processing and distributed systems.