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Developing self-stabilizing solutions is considered to be more challenging and complicated than developing classical solutions, where a proper initialization of the variables can be assumed. This remark holds for a large variety of models. Hence, to ease the task of the developers, some automatic techniques have been proposed to design self-stabilizing algorithms. In this paper, we propose an automatic transformer for algorithms in population protocols model. This model introduced recently for networks with a large number of resource-limited mobile agents. For our purposes, we use a variant of this model. Mainly, we assume agents having characteristics (e.g., moving speed, communication radius) affecting their intercommunication “speed” and considered through the notion of cover time. The automatic transformer takes as an input an algorithm solving a static problem and outputs a self-stabilizing algorithm for the same problem. We prove that our transformer is correct and we analyze its stabilization complexity.
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Beauquier, J., Burman, J., Kutten, S. (2009). Making Population Protocols Self-stabilizing. In: Guerraoui, R., Petit, F. (eds) Stabilization, Safety, and Security of Distributed Systems. SSS 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5873. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-05118-0_7
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