Congratulations to George Giakkoupis for his paper entitled “Faster Randomized Repeated Choice and DCAS” with Dante Bencivenga and Philipp Woelfel, accepted at PODC 2024. In this paper, the authors revisit the Double-Compare-and-Swap (DCAS) problem. DCAS is a useful and fundamental synchronization primitive for shared memory systems, which, contrary to CAS,…
Congratulations to Manon Sourisseau, Jérémie Decouchant, François Taïani, and David Bromberg for their paper entitled “Partition Detection in Byzantine Networks” accepted at ICDCS 2024. Jérémie works at TU Delft; meanwhile, all remaining authors are members of the WIDE team. The paper addresses the problem of detecting network partitions while considering the…
An extended version of the paper “Good-case Early-Stopping Latency of Synchronous Byzantine Reliable Broadcast: The Deterministic Case”, published at DISC 2022, has been accepted at Distributed Computing, a leading journal in the field of distributed algorithms. The paper, authored by Timothé Albouy, Davide Frey, Michel Raynal and François Taïani, presents…
The WIDE team together with its partner Broadpeak is organizing the Inria/IRISA Broadpeak Workshop on Streaming (WOS’23). The workshop will take place on Tuesday, November 28, 2023, at Inria Rennes – IRISA, in Rennes. The full-day workshop will focus on system aspects of video streaming, with a full-day program of…
The paper entitled “The Synchronization Power (Consensus Number) of Access-Control Objects: the Case of AllowList and DenyList” has been accepted at DISC 2023, the International Symposium on Distributed Computing, one of the premier venues on the theory of distributed systems. The paper, authored by Davide Frey, Mathieu Gestin, and Michel Raynal…
Congratulations to George Giakkoupis for his best paper award at PODC 2023 for his paper entitled “Word-Size RMR Trade-offs for Recoverable Mutual Exclusion” with David Yu Cheng Chan and Philipp Woelfel from the University of Calgary.
Congratulations to Georges Giakkoupis for his two papers accepted at ACM PODC 2023. The two papers are as follows: Word-Size RMR Trade-offs for Recoverable Mutual Exclusion by David Yu Cheng Chan (University of Calgary), George Giakkoupis and Philipp Woelfel (University of Calgary): The paper presents a tight lower bound on…
Erwan Le Merrer, membre de l’équipe WIDE, et président du conseil scientifique de la SIF (Société Informatique de France), discute dans le blog binaire du Monde, de questions d’indistinguabilité, d’entraînement, et des risques que les IA basées sur les grands modèles de langue (LLM, Large Language Model) tels que ChatGPT…
The WIDE Team Seminar 2023 will take place in Saint-Jacut-de-la-Mer on 30 and 31 May. The program includes cutting-edge scientific talks, tutorials, and interactive sessions. Tuesday 30 May 08:20 – Departure from Rennes (Beaulieu Campus, https://osm.org/go/eri2dohsk?m=) by Coach 🚌 10:00 – Arrival + Welcome Coffee ☕️ 10:30 – Opening (François)…
Congratulations to Davide Frey, Achour Mostefaoui, Matthieu Perrin, Pierre-Louis Roman, and Francois Taiani for their new paper published in IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, entitled Differentiated consistency for worldwide gossips. The paper proposes a novel approach to accelerate the dissemination of a message with an application to update-consistent…
