Distributed computing is currently undergoing a paradigm shift, towards large-scale dynamic systems, where thousands of nodes collaboratively solve computational tasks. Examples of such emerging systems include autonomous sensor networks, data-grids, wireless mesh network (WMN) infrastructures, and more. We argue that speculative computations will be instrumental to successfully performing meaningful computations in such systems. Moreover, solutions deployed in such platforms will need to be as local as possible.
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