This volume presents the proceedings of the Seventh
International Workshop on Distributed Algorithms (WDAG 93),
held in Lausanne, Switzerland, September 1993. It contains
22 papers selected from 72 submissions. The selection was
based on originality, quality, and relevance to the field of
distributed computing: 6 papers are from Europe, 13 from
North America, and 3 from the Middle East.
The papers discuss topics from all areas of distributed
computing and their applications, including distributed
algorithms for control and communication, fault-tolerant
distributed algorithms, network protocols, algorithms for
managing replicated data, protocols for real-time
distributed systems, issues of asynchrony, synchrony and
real-time, mechanisms for security in distributed systems,
techniques for the design and analysis of distributed
algorithms, distributed database techniques, distributed
combinatorial and optimization algorithms, and distributed
graph algorithms.