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WDAG
2010
Springer
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13 years 7 months ago
Brief Announcement: Failure Detectors Encapsulate Fairness
Abstract. We argue that failure detectors encapsulate fairness. Fairness is a measure of the number of steps a process takes relative to another processes and/or messages in transi...
Scott M. Pike, Srikanth Sastry, Jennifer L. Welch
SSS
2007
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Global Predicate Detection in Distributed Systems with Small Faults
Abstract. We study the problem of global predicate detection in presence of permanent and transient failures. We term the transient failures as small faults. We show that it is imp...
Felix C. Freiling, Arshad Jhumka
SRDS
2010
IEEE
13 years 6 months ago
Swift Algorithms for Repeated Consensus
We introduce the notion of a swift algorithm. Informally, an algorithm that solves the repeated consensus is swift if, in a partial synchronous run of this algorithm, eventually no...
Fatemeh Borran, Martin Hutle, Nuno Santos, Andr&ea...
SIAMCOMP
2008
148views more  SIAMCOMP 2008»
13 years 7 months ago
The Combined Power of Conditions and Information on Failures to Solve Asynchronous Set Agreement
Abstract. To cope with the impossibility of solving agreement problems in asynchronous systems made up of n processes and prone to t process crashes, system designers tailor their ...
Achour Mostéfaoui, Sergio Rajsbaum, Michel ...
PODC
2009
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Partial synchrony based on set timeliness
d Abstract] Marcos K. Aguilera Microsoft Research Silicon Valley Mountain View, CA, USA Carole Delporte-Gallet Universit? Paris 7 Paris, France Hugues Fauconnier Universit? Paris ...
Marcos Kawazoe Aguilera, Carole Delporte-Gallet, H...