TY - JOUR
AU - Aurell, Erik
AB - This paper aims to introduce Distributed Systems as a field where the ideas and methods of physics can potentially be applied, and to provide entry points to a wide literature. The contributions of Leslie Lamport, inspired by Relativity Theory, and of Edsger Dijkstra, which has the flavor of a growth process, are discussed at some length. The intent of the author is primarily to stimulate interest in the statistical physics community, and the discussions are therefore framed in a non-technical language; the author apologizes in advance to readers from the computer science side for the unavoidable impreciseness and ambiguities.
TI - The physics of distributed information systems
JO - Journal of Physics: Conference Series
DO - 10.1088/1742-6596/473/1/012017
DA - 2013-12-16
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/iop-publishing/the-physics-of-distributed-information-systems-s9VwqLdscF
SP - 012017
VL - 473
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -