Population Stability: Regulating Size in the Presence of an Adversary

We introduce a new coordination problem in distributed computing that we call the population stability problem. A system of agents each with limited memory and communication, as well as the ability to replicate and self-destruct, is subjected to attacks by a worst-case adversary that can at a bounde...

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Main Authors: Goldwasser, Shafrira, Ostrovsky, Rafail, Scafuro, Alessandra, Sealfon, Adam
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) 2021
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/129410