Distributed computing pearls

by Taubenfeld, Gadi

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Title Statements

Full title :Distributed computing pearls / Gadi Taubenfeld.

Summary

Computers and computer networks are one of the most incredible inventions of the 20th century, having an ever-expanding role in our daily lives by enabling complex human activities in areas such as entertainment, education, and commerce. One of the most challenging problems in computer science for the 21st century is to improve the design of distributed systems where computing devices have to work together as a team to achieve common goals. In this book, I have tried to gently introduce the general reader to some of the most fundamental issues and classical results of computer science underlying the design of algorithms for distributed systems, so that the reader can get a feel of the nature of this exciting and fascinating field called distributed computing. The book will appeal to the educated layperson and requires no computer-related background. I strongly suspect that also most computer-knowledgeable readers will be able to learn something new.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2018

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Springer
Place of Publication:Cham, Switzerland
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2018

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (xv, 107 pages) : : illustrations

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781681733494, 1681733498, 9781681733517, 168173351X, 9783031020124, 303102012X
DOI:10.1007/978-3-031-02012-4
oclc:on1037800691
LC Classification:QA76.9.D5
Dewey Decimal:004.36

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Subjects

agreement ALGORITHMS asynchronous barrier synchronization Byzantine agreement Byzantine failures choice coordination COMPUTERS -- Computer Literacy COMPUTERS -- Computer Science COMPUTERS -- Data Processing COMPUTERS -- Hardware COMPUTERS -- Information Technology COMPUTERS -- Machine Theory COMPUTERS -- Reference consensus crash failures Deadlock dining philosophers Distributed algorithms Electronic data processing -- Distribut…