Understanding distributed computing is not an easy task. This is due to the many facets of uncertainty one has to cope with and master in order to produce corre

Understanding distributed computing is not an easy task. This is due to the many facets of uncertainty one has to cope with and master in order to produce corre

This book presents the most important fault-tolerant distributed programming abstractions and their associated distributed algorithms, in particular in terms of

This thesis consists of three parts. The first part characterizes completely the shared-memory requirements for achieving agreement in an asynchronous system of