One of the biggest misconceptions about distributed systems algorithms is that they are deterministic, meaning that they always produce the same output given the same input and initial state.

However, designing and analyzing algorithms for distributed systems is not a trivial task. It involves various challenges and trade-offs that affect the performance, correctness, and robustness of ...

This algorithm is simulated using threads. Data structure used to fast compare the content of the tree Wikipedia. The current implementation is based on two arrays one sorted of the data key value ...

The 14 th International Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science (CLMPS), held last July in France, included a special symposium on the subject of "What is an algorithm?" This may seem ...

Can I level with you? I’m not always sure I know what people are talking about when they say algorithm? You’re not alone: Honestly, I haven’t always been sure what I meant when I said it either.

Its opposite is decryption. One important aspect of the encryption process is that it almost always involves both an algorithm and a key. A key is just another piece of information, almost always ...

EPFL researchers have developed a new distributed algorithm that, for the first time, solves one of the key performance and reliability problems affecting most of the currently-deployed consensus ...