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About the Termination Detection in the Asynchronous Message Passing Model

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Starting with the works by Angluin [1] and Itai and Rodeh [11], many papers have discussed the question what functions can be computed by distributed algorithms in networks where knowledge about the network topology is limited.

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Chalopin, J., Godard, E., Métivier, Y., Tel, G. (2007). About the Termination Detection in the Asynchronous Message Passing Model. In: van Leeuwen, J., Italiano, G.F., van der Hoek, W., Meinel, C., Sack, H., Plášil, F. (eds) SOFSEM 2007: Theory and Practice of Computer Science. SOFSEM 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4362. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-69507-3_16

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