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On Randomization Versus Synchronization in Distributed Systems

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We use techniques from concurrency theory to present two new impossibility results for asynchronous distributed systems with randomization. While these results are interesting by themselves, they also complete a picture of how particular liveness assumptions influence the solvability of distributed computation problems in the absence and presence of randomization.

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  1. Institute for Theoretical Computer Science, University of Lübeck, Germany, Ratzeburger Allee 160, 23538, Lübeck, Germany

    Hagen Völzer

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  1. Departament de Llenguatges i Sistemes Informatics, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Campus Nord - Ed. Omega, 240 Jordi Girona Salgado, 1-3 E-08034, Barcelona

    Josep Díaz

  2. Department of Mathematics and Turku Centre for Computer Science TUCS, University of Turku, 20014, Turku, Finland

    Juhani Karhumäki

  3. Department of Mathematics, University of Turku, Turku, Finland

    Arto Lepistö

  4. Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science, University of Edinburgh,  

    Donald Sannella

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Völzer, H. (2004). On Randomization Versus Synchronization in Distributed Systems. In: Díaz, J., Karhumäki, J., Lepistö, A., Sannella, D. (eds) Automata, Languages and Programming. ICALP 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3142. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-27836-8_100

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