Internet based services, particularly asynchronous communication services, offer an environment suited to the rise of knowledge communities. Knowledge communities, or invisible co...
— We present the first protocol that reaches asynchronous Byzantine consensus in two communication steps in the common case. We prove that our protocol is optimal in terms of bo...
Abstract. The focus of work on information flow security has primarily been on definitions of security in asynchronous systems models. This paper considers systems with scheduler...
Message Sequence Charts (MSCs) are a graphical language for scenarios of communicating components exchanging messages in a distributed environment. The language has been standardi...
As long as no cooperation between processes is supposed to take place, one may consider them separately and need not ask for the progress of the respective other processes. If a c...