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The paper presents a technique for achieving stabilization in distributed systems. This technique, called agent-stabilization, uses an external tool, the agent, that can be considered as a special message created by a lower layer. Basically, an agent performs a traversal of the network and if necessary, modifies the local states of the nodes, yielding stabilization.
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Beauquier, J., Hérault, T., Schiller, E. (2001). Easy Stabilization with an Agent. In: Datta, A.K., Herman, T. (eds) Self-Stabilizing Systems. WSS 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2194. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45438-1_3
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