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Consensus Variants: Simultaneous Consensus and k-Set Agreement

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Considering the classic system model CSMPn,t\([\emptyset]\), this chapter presents two “variants” of the consensus agreement abstraction. One is a strengthening of the agreement property, the other one a weakening. Hence, consensus lies in between.

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Raynal, M. (2018). Consensus Variants: Simultaneous Consensus and k-Set Agreement. In: Fault-Tolerant Message-Passing Distributed Systems. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94141-7_12

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