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DC
1999
14 years 11 months ago
A Simple and Fast Asynchronous Consensus Protocol Based on a Weak Failure Detector
or fault-tolerant asynchronous systems. It abstracts a family of problems known as Agreement (or Coordination) problems. Any solution to consensus can serve as a basic building blo...
Michel Hurfin, Michel Raynal
WDAG
2009
Springer
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15 years 4 months ago
Brief Announcement: The Minimum Failure Detector for Non-Local Tasks in Message-Passing Systems
This paper defines the basic notions of local and non-local tasks, and determines the minimum information about failures that is necessary to solve any non-local task in message-p...
Carole Delporte-Gallet, Hugues Fauconnier, Sam Tou...
ISSRE
2010
IEEE
14 years 10 months ago
Characterizing Failures in Mobile OSes: A Case Study with Android and Symbian
Abstract—As smart phones grow in popularity, manufacturers are in a race to pack an increasingly rich set of features into these tiny devices. This brings additional complexity i...
Amiya Kumar Maji, Kangli Hao, Salmin Sultana, Saur...
TASLP
2008
64views more  TASLP 2008»
14 years 11 months ago
Improved A Posteriori Speech Presence Probability Estimation Based on a Likelihood Ratio With Fixed Priors
Abstract--In this contribution we present an improved estimator for the speech presence probability at each time-frequency point in the short-time Fourier-transform domain. In cont...
Timo Gerkmann, Colin Breithaupt, Rainer Martin
ISAAC
2009
Springer
142views Algorithms» more  ISAAC 2009»
15 years 6 months ago
Of Choices, Failures and Asynchrony: The Many Faces of Set Agreement
Abstract. Set agreement is a fundamental problem in distributed computing in which processes collectively choose a small subset of values from a larger set of proposals. The imposs...
Dan Alistarh, Seth Gilbert, Rachid Guerraoui, Core...