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Global mixed-integer dynamic optimization

Benoît Chachuat

Recent advances in process synthesis, design, operations, and control have created an increasing demand for efficient numerical algorithms for optimizing a dynamic system coupled with discrete decisions; these problems are termed mixed-integer dynamic opti ...

2005

The weakest failure detectors to solve Quittable Consensus and Non-Blocking Atomic Commit

Rachid Guerraoui

We introduce quittable consensus, a natural variation of the consensus problem, where processes have the option to agree on “quit” if failures occur, and we relate this problem to the well-known problem of non-blocking atomic commit. We then determine the ...

2004

Fast Non-Blocking Atomic Commit: An Inherent Trade-off

Rachid Guerraoui, Bastian Pochon, Partha Dutta

This paper investigates the time-complexity of the non-blocking atomic commit (NBAC) problem in a synchronous distributed model where t out of n processes may fail by crashing. We exhibit for t > 3 an inherent trade-off between the fast abort property of N ...

2004

The Overhead of Consensus Failure Recovery

Rachid Guerraoui, Partha Dutta

Many reliable distributed systems are consensus-based and typically operate under two modes: a fast normal mode in failure-free periods, and a slower recovery mode following failures. A lot of work has been devoted to optimizing the normal mode, but little ...

2004

An Adaptive Algorithm for Efficient Message Diffusion in Unreliable Environments

Rodrigo Malta Schmidt, Benoît Garbinato, Fernando Pedone

In this paper, we propose a novel approach for solving the reliable broadcast problem in a probabilistic unreliable model. Our approach consists in first defining the optimality of probabilistic reliable broadcast algorithms and the adaptiveness of algorit ...

2004

Finally the Weakest Failure Detector for Non-Blocking Atomic Commit

Rachid Guerraoui

Recent papers [GK03,HT03] define the weakest failure detector for solving the Non-Blocking Atomic Commit problem (NBAC) in a message passing system where processes can fail by crashing and a majority of processes never crash. In this paper, we generalize t ...

2003

The Weakest Failure Detector for Non-Blocking Atomic Commit

Rachid Guerraoui

This paper addresses the question of the weakest failure detector for solving the Non-Blocking Atomic Commit problem (NBAC) in a message passing system where processes can fail by crashing. We define a failure detector, denoted by X, which we show to be su ...

2003

A Multi-Agent System for Integrating a Large-Scale Project

Boi Faltings, Carlos Eisenberg

This paper presents a multiagent-system for integrating AL-ICE: a real-life, distributed, large-scale particle physics experiment of the LHC project at CERN. The work is concerned with solving the large-scale coordination problem using a distributed constr ...

2003

Solving Agreement Problems with Weak Ordering Oracles

André Schiper, David Cavin, Fernando Pedone

Agreement problems, such as consensus, atomic broadcast, and group membership, are central to the implementation of fault-tolerant distributed systems. Despite the diversity of algorithms that have been proposed for solving agreement problems in the past y ...

2002

On the Weakest Failure Detector for Non-Blocking Atomic Commit.

Rachid Guerraoui

This paper addresses the question of the weakest failure detector to solve the Non-Blocking Atomic Commit (NBAC) problem in an asynchronous system. We define the set A of timeless failure detectors which excludes detectors that provide information about gl ...

2002