- Hardcover: 384 pages
- Publisher: McGraw-Hill Publishing Co. (1 April 1998)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0077093526
- ISBN-13: 978-0077093525
- Product Dimensions: 26.2 x 23.4 x 3.3 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 4,767,441 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"This is a second edition of a well–received graduate course textbook dealing with the important field of distributed computing." (Computing Reviews.com, May 10, 2006)
"...the authors take readers through these notoriously difficult subjects and ably demystify puzzling buzzwords…" (IEEE Distributed Systems Online, March 2005)
"The authors present the fundamental issues underlying the design of distributed systems…as well as fundamental algorithmic concepts and lower–bound techniques." (IEEE Computer Magazine, October 2004) --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.
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This introduction to the mathematical foundations and theory of distributed computing is theoretical in nature, describing algorithms and their correctness proofs, impossibility results and lower bounds for the fundamental problems.
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13 of 15 people found the following review helpful
Terse prose fraught with errors and omissions
12 May 1999
Format:Hardcover
I've struggled to read this text, since it contains many very recent results distilled into intelligently organized chapters. Unfortunately, even though this book is intended for a savvy audience, the text is often too detailed and technical, while important "big picture" intuition is never relayed. Frequent errors in the algorithms and proofs, ranging from simple subscript swaps to more subtle errors in logic to the (rarer) complete lack of logic make this a difficult book to recommend. In addition, the exercises are frequently too vague (sometimes meaningless) -- this book is definitely not recommended for class work.
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
A good book
30 Jan 2006
Format:Hardcover
This is a good book in the field of distributed computing, but it is very mathematically oriented. It concentrates on impossibility proofs and lower bound proofs. I advise people new to this material to read a more descriptive book before reading this one
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Theoritical text with lots of lemmas.
8 July 2009
Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase
In my opinion, this book is difficult to read with very few exhibits. The author's comprehension is profound with tons of references. This book should be used between intermediate to an advanced course of Distributed Computing area.
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