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Gossip protocols are programs used in a setting in which each agent holds a secret and the aim is to reach a situation in which all agents know all secrets. Such protocols rely on a point-to-point or group communication. Distributed…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-07-23 Krzysztof R. Apt , Dominik Wojtczak

Gossip protocols aim at arriving, by means of point-to-point or group communications, at a situation in which all the agents know each other secrets. Recently a number of authors studied distributed epistemic gossip protocols. These…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-07-28 Krzysztof R. Apt , Dominik Wojtczak

We provide an in-depth study of the knowledge-theoretic aspects of communication in so-called gossip protocols. Pairs of agents communicate by means of calls in order to spread information---so-called secrets---within the group. Depending…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2018-10-12 Krzysztof R. Apt , Davide Grossi , Wiebe van der Hoek

We investigate self-correcting gossip protocols with errors. In distributed computing, protocols with errors have been widely investigated in temporal epistemic logics. Instead, we propose a dynamic epistemic logic. We show how to correct…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Giorgio Cignarale , Hans van Ditmarsch , Stephan Felber , Malvin Gattinger , Hugo Rincon Galeana , Vaishnavi Sundararajan

The gossip problem, in which information (known as secrets) must be shared among a certain number of agents using the minimum number of calls, is of interest in the conception of communication networks and protocols. We extend the gossip…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-06-15 Martin C. Cooper , Andreas Herzig , Faustine Maffre , Frédéric Maris , Pierre Régnier

A gossip protocol is a procedure for spreading secrets among a group of agents, using a connection graph. The goal is for all agents to get to know all secrets, in which case we call the execution of the protocol successful. We consider…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2018-09-28 Hans van Ditmarsch , Jan van Eijck , Pere Pardo , Rahim Ramezanian , François Schwarzentruber

Distributed dynamic gossip is a generalization of the classic telephone problem in which agents communicate to share secrets, with the additional twist that also telephone numbers are exchanged to determine who can call whom. Recent work…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-07-30 Hans van Ditmarsch , Malvin Gattinger , Louwe B. Kuijer , Pere Pardo

Gossip protocols have been proposed as a robust and efficient method for disseminating information throughout large-scale networks. In this paper, we propose a compositional analysis technique to study formal probabilistic models of gossip…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Ruggero Lanotte , Massimo Merro , Simone Tini

We study the gossip problem in a message-passing environment: When a process receives a message, it has to decide whether the sender has more recent information on other processes than itself. This problem is at the heart of many…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2018-04-30 Benedikt Bollig , Marie Fortin , Paul Gastin

Gossip algorithms is a common term to describe protocols for unreliable information dissemination in natural networks, which are not optimally designed for efficient communication between network entities. We consider application of gossip…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-22 Michael Siomau

By the distributed averaging problem is meant the problem of computing the average value of a set of numbers possessed by the agents in a distributed network using only communication between neighboring agents. Gossiping is a well-known…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-12-28 Ji Liu , Shaoshuai Mou , A. Stephen Morse , Brian D. O. Anderson , Changbin Yu

We present an analytical framework for gossip protocols based on the pairwise information exchange between interacting nodes. This framework allows for studying the impact of protocol parameters on the performance of the protocol.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2011-05-31 Rena Bakhshi , Daniela Gavidia , Wan Fokkink , Maarten van Steen

As agentic platforms scale, agents are evolving beyond static roles and fixed toolchains, creating a growing need for flexible, decentralized coordination. Today's structured communication protocols (e.g., direct agent-to-agent messaging)…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Mansura Habiba , Nafiul I. Khan

A gossip protocol is a procedure for sharing secrets in a network. The basic action in a gossip protocol is a pairwise message exchange (telephone call) wherein the calling agents exchange all the secrets they know. An agent who knows all…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-03-22 Hans van Ditmarsch , Malvin Gattinger , Rahim Ramezanian

Gossip protocols are widely used to disseminate information in massive peer-to-peer networks. These protocols are often claimed to guarantee privacy because of the uncertainty they introduce on the node that started the dissemination. But…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-08-05 Aurélien Bellet , Rachid Guerraoui , Hadrien Hendrikx

Gossip protocols are popular methods for average consensus problems in distributed computing. We prove new convergence guarantees for a variety of such protocols, including path, clique, and synchronous pairwise gossip. These arise by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-28 Jamie Haddock , Benjamin Jarman , Chen Yap

Gossip algorithms are attractive for in-network processing in sensor networks because they do not require any specialized routing, there is no bottleneck or single point of failure, and they are robust to unreliable wireless network…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Alexandros G. Dimakis , Soummya Kar , Jose M. F. Moura , Michael G. Rabbat , Anna Scaglione

We develop an analytical model of information dissemination for a gossiping protocol that combines both pull and push approaches. With this model we analyse how fast an item is replicated through a network, and how fast the item spreads in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2010-03-11 Rena Bakhshi , Daniela Gavidia , Wan Fokkink , Maarten van Steen

This paper focuses on non-asymptotic diffusion time in asynchronous gossip protocols. Asynchronous gossip protocols are designed to perform distributed computation in a network of nodes by randomly exchanging messages on the associated…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-11-22 David Picard , Jérôme Fellus , Stéphane Garnier

We propose communication pattern logic. A communication pattern describes how processes or agents inform each other, independently of the information content. The full-information protocol in distributed computing is the special case…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-08-02 Armando Castañeda , Hans van Ditmarsch , David A. Rosenblueth , Diego A. Velázquez
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