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Temporal epistemic logic is a well-established framework for expressing agents knowledge and how it evolves over time. Within language-based security these are central issues, for instance in the context of declassification. We propose to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2012-09-03 Musard Balliu , Mads Dam , Gurvan Le Guernic

As agentic platforms scale, agents are moving beyond fixed roles and predefined toolchains, creating an urgent need for flexible and decentralized coordination. Current structured communication protocols such as direct agent-to-agent…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Nafiul I. Khan , Mansura Habiba , Rafflesia Khan

Information pooling has been extensively formalised across various logical frameworks in distributed systems, characterized by diverse information-sharing patterns. These approaches generally adopt an intersection perspective, aggregating…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-05-17 Huimin Dong

Gossip algorithms are widely used in modern distributed systems, with applications ranging from sensor networks and peer-to-peer networks to mobile vehicle networks and social networks. A tremendous research effort has been devoted to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Guodong Shi , Bo Li , Mikael Johansson , Karl Henrik Johansson

We consider two simple variants of a framework for reasoning about knowledge amongst communicating groups of players. Our goal is to clarify the resulting epistemic issues. In particular, we investigate what is the impact of common…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2009-07-03 Krzysztof R. Apt , Andreas Witzel , Jonathan A. Zvesper

This paper analyzes the adoption of unstructured P2P overlay networks to build publish-subscribe systems. We consider a very simple distributed communication protocol, based on gossip and on the local knowledge each node has about…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2012-06-21 Stefano Ferretti

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

This paper analyzes a class of dissemination algorithms for the discovery of distributed contents in Peer-to-Peer unstructured overlay networks. The algorithms are a mix of protocols employing local knowledge of peers' neighborhood and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-03-13 Stefano Ferretti

Consider a network of nodes where each node has a message to communicate to all other nodes. For this communication problem, we analyze a gossip based protocol where coded messages are exchanged. This problem was studied by Aoyama and Shah…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-12-16 Dinkar Vasudevan , Shrinivas Kudekar

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

This paper extends the consensus framework, widely studied in the literature on distributed computing and control algorithms, to networks of quantum systems. We define consensus situations on the basis of invariance and symmetry properties,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-01-05 Luca Mazzarella , Alain Sarlette , Francesco Ticozzi

In the first part of the paper, we have studied the computational privacy risks in distributed computing protocols against local or global dynamics eavesdroppers, and proposed a Privacy-Preserving-Summation-Consistent (PPSC) mechanism as a…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-02-20 Yang Liu , Junfeng Wu , Ian Manchester , Guodong Shi

We study time-dependent dynamics on a network of order lattices, where structure-preserving lattice maps are used to fuse lattice-valued data over vertices and edges. The principal contribution is a novel asynchronous Laplacian,…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Hans Riess , Robert Ghrist

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

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

We study gossip algorithms for the rumor spreading problem which asks each node to deliver a rumor to all nodes in an unknown network. Gossip algorithms allow nodes only to call one neighbor per round and have recently attracted attention…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-04-08 Bernhard Haeupler

The level of trust accorded to certification authorities has been decreasing over the last few years as several cases of misbehavior and compromise have been observed. Log-based approaches, such as Certificate Transparency, ensure that…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-01-06 Laurent Chuat , Pawel Szalachowski , Adrian Perrig , Ben Laurie , Eran Messeri

This paper presents greedy gossip with eavesdropping (GGE), a novel randomized gossip algorithm for distributed computation of the average consensus problem. In gossip algorithms, nodes in the network randomly communicate with their…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-05-14 Deniz Ustebay , Boris Oreshkin , Mark Coates , Michael Rabbat

In this work we present three different randomized gossip algorithms for solving the average consensus problem while at the same time protecting the information about the initial private values stored at the nodes. We give iteration…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-06-26 Filip Hanzely , Jakub Konečný , Nicolas Loizou , Peter Richtárik , Dmitry Grishchenko

In this paper, we study an asynchronous randomized gossip algorithm under unreliable communication. At each instance, two nodes are selected to meet with a given probability. When nodes meet, two unreliable communication links are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-03-28 Guodong Shi , Mikael Johansson , Karl Henrik Johansson