Multi-party protocols

  • Authors:
  • Ashok K. Chandra;Merrick L. Furst;Richard J. Lipton

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • STOC '83 Proceedings of the fifteenth annual ACM symposium on Theory of computing
  • Year:
  • 1983

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Abstract

Many different types of inter-process communication have been examined from a complexity point of view [SP, Y]. We study a new model, in which a collection of processes P0, ..., Pk−1 that share information about a set of integers {a0, ...,ak−1}, communicate to determine a 0-1 predicate of the numbers. In this new model, tremendous sharing of information is allowed, while no single party is given enough information to determine the predicate on its own. Formally, each Pi has access to every aj except for ai. For simplicity, we only allow the parties to communicate as follows.