Epidemic Computing
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An epidemic or infectious disease like influenza, cholera or yellow fever is of course a bad thing: | An epidemic or infectious disease like influenza, cholera or yellow fever is of course a bad thing: | ||
| - | + | "an epidemic is generally a widespread disease that affects many individuals in a population" [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epidemics]. For the construction of distributed systems it is | |
| - | an interesting phenomenon. | + | an interesting phenomenon. "Epidemic techniques" can be used in building reliable and scalable |
distributed systems: epidemic algorithms can be used for | distributed systems: epidemic algorithms can be used for | ||
