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2010
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Adaptive progress: a gracefully-degrading liveness property
We introduce a simple liveness property for shared object implementations that is gracefully degrading depending on the degree of synchrony in each run. This property, called adapt...
Marcos Kawazoe Aguilera, Sam Toueg
DC
2008
13 years 7 months ago
Sketching asynchronous data streams over sliding windows
We study the problem of maintaining a sketch of recent elements of a data stream. Motivated by applications involving network data, we consider streams that are asynchronous, in wh...
Bojian Xu, Srikanta Tirthapura, Costas Busch
DC
2008
13 years 7 months ago
Failure detectors as type boosters
The power of an object type T can be measured as the maximum number n of processes that can solve consensus using only objects of T and registers. This number, denoted cons(T), is ...
Rachid Guerraoui, Petr Kouznetsov
DC
2008
13 years 7 months ago
Solo-valency and the cost of coordination
This paper introduces solo-valency, a variation on the valency proof technique originated by Fischer, Lynch, and Paterson. The new technique focuses on critical events that influe...
Danny Hendler, Nir Shavit
DC
2008
13 years 7 months ago
Approximate distributed top- k queries
We consider a distributed system where each node keeps a local count for items (similar to elections where nodes are ballot boxes and items are candidates). A top-k query in such ...
Boaz Patt-Shamir, Allon Shafrir