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PODC
2004
ACM
15 years 3 months ago
Byzantine disk paxos: optimal resilience with byzantine shared memory
We present Byzantine Disk Paxos, an asynchronous shared-memory consensus algorithm that uses a collection of n > 3t disks, t of which may fail by becoming non-responsive or arb...
Ittai Abraham, Gregory Chockler, Idit Keidar, Dahl...
ATAL
2009
Springer
15 years 4 months ago
The price of democracy in coalition formation
Whenever rational agents form coalitions to execute tasks, doing so via a decentralized negotiation process—while more robust and democratic—may lead to a loss of efficiency ...
Georgios Chalkiadakis, Edith Elkind, Maria Polukar...
ISAAC
2009
Springer
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15 years 4 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...
CRYPTO
2001
Springer
111views Cryptology» more  CRYPTO 2001»
15 years 2 months ago
On the Cost of Reconstructing a Secret, or VSS with Optimal Reconstruction Phase
Consider a scenario where an l-bit secret has been distributed among n players by an honest dealer using some secret sharing scheme. Then, if all players behave honestly, the secre...
Ronald Cramer, Ivan Damgård, Serge Fehr
PODC
1998
ACM
15 years 1 months ago
Optimal Efficiency of Optimistic Contract Signing
A contract is a non-repudiable agreement on a given contract text, i.e., a contract can be used to prove agreement between its signatories to any verifier. A contract signing sche...
Birgit Pfitzmann, Matthias Schunter, Michael Waidn...