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PODC
2004
ACM
15 years 5 months ago
Signed quorum systems
Abstract With n servers that independently fail with probability of p < 0.5, it is well known that the majority quorum system achieves the best availability among all quorum sys...
Haifeng Yu
STOC
2004
ACM
138views Algorithms» more  STOC 2004»
15 years 5 months ago
Know thy neighbor's neighbor: the power of lookahead in randomized P2P networks
Several peer-to-peer networks are based upon randomized graph topologies that permit efficient greedy routing, e.g., randomized hypercubes, randomized Chord, skip-graphs and const...
Gurmeet Singh Manku, Moni Naor, Udi Wieder
SIGECOM
2010
ACM
183views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2010»
15 years 4 months ago
The unavailable candidate model: a decision-theoretic view of social choice
One of the fundamental problems in the theory of social choice is aggregating the rankings of a set of agents (or voters) into a consensus ranking. Rank aggregation has found appl...
Tyler Lu, Craig Boutilier
TIC
1998
Springer
127views System Software» more  TIC 1998»
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Stack-Based Typed Assembly Language
In previous work, we presented a Typed Assembly Language (TAL). TAL is sufficiently expressive to serve as a target language for compilers of high-level languages such as ML. More...
J. Gregory Morrisett, Karl Crary, Neal Glew, David...
FOCS
1994
IEEE
15 years 4 months ago
The Load, Capacity and Availability of Quorum Systems
A quorum system is a collection of sets (quorums) every two of which intersect. Quorum systems have been used for many applications in the area of distributed systems, including mu...
Moni Naor, Avishai Wool