Section: Overall Objectives

Highlights of the year

1. Best paper award at the International Symposium on Stabilization, Safety, and Security of Distributed Systems (SSS 2009) "Looking for the Weakest Failure Detector for k-Set Agreement in Message-passing Systems: Is k the End of the Road", François Bonnet and Michel Raynal.

2. Best student paper award (Kevin Huguenin is a PhD student in ASAP) at the International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems (OPODIS 2009) "Decentralized Polling With Respectable Participants", Rachid Guerraoui, Kevin Huguenin, Anne-Marie Kermarrec and Maxime Monod.