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Consider a network of nodes; each node represents a philosopher; links represent the neighboring relationship among the philosophers. Every philosopher enjoys singing so much that once getting the chance, he always sings a song within a finite delay. This paper proposes a protocol for the philosophers to follow. The protocol guarantees the following requirements: (1) No two neighboring philosophers sing songs simultaneously. (2) Along any infinite time period, each philosopher gets his chances to sing infinitely often. Following the protocol, each philosopher uses only one bit to memorize his state.
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Huang, ST. (2000). The Fuzzy Philosophers. In: Rolim, J. (eds) Parallel and Distributed Processing. IPDPS 2000. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1800. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45591-4_16
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