Abstract. Aggregation is an important building block of modern distributed applications, allowing the determination of meaningful properties (e.g. network size, total storage capac...
ion. First described in RFC 707,1 with implementation approaches and details later provided by Andrew Birrell and Bruce Nelson,2 RPC has influenced distributed systems research and...
Computational social choice is a new discipline currently emerging at the interface of social choice theory and computer science. It is concerned with the application of computati...
Today's complex applications must face the distribution of data and code among different network nodes. Computation in distributed contexts is demanding increasingly powerful...
Advanced bit manipulation operations are not efficiently supported by commodity word-oriented microprocessors. Programming tricks are typically devised to shorten the long sequence...