Abstract. Computer manipulated social networks are usually built from the explicit assertion by users that they have some relation with other users or by the implicit evidence of s...
We define two new classes of shared-memory objects: ratifiers, which detect agreement, and conciliators, which ensure agreement with some probability. We show that consensus can...
We demonstrate how to leverage a system’s capability for allto-all communication to achieve an exponential speed-up of local algorithms despite bandwidth and memory restrictions...
We present Gatekeeper, a decentralized protocol that performs Sybil-resilient node admission control based on a social network. Gatekeeper can admit most honest nodes while limiti...