Proceedings Seventh International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (Cat. No.PR00568)

The following topics were dealt with: network computing technology and the information society in the 21st Century; object-oriented real-time distributed programming and support middleware; a new scheme for sharing secret colour images over a computer network; multimedia systems; group communications; theoretical network issues; quality of service; checkpointing and commitment; World Wide Web-based computing; distributed shared memory; multicasting; object-oriented programming; routing; fault-tolerant systems; high-performance databases; CSCW; parallel systems; multimedia applications; mobile systems; distributed algorithms; distributed operating systems and shared memory; multi-agent systems; and parallel and distributed query processing