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PODC
2004
ACM
15 years 12 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 12 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 11 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»
15 years 10 months ago
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 10 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