1 On the Power of Predicted Lost Values for Distributed Condition Monitoring Oren Ben-Zwi Computer Science Haifa University, Haifa 31905, Israel, nbenzv03@cs.haifa.ac.il Shlomit S. Pinter IBM, Haifa Research Lab., Haifa 31905, Israel, shlomit@il.ibm.com, WWW home page: http://cs.haifa.ac.il/ shlomit/ January 2, 2007 DRAFT