Concurrent one-way protocols in around-the-clock social networks
Royi Ronen, Oded Shmueli · 2010
We introduce and study concurrent One-Way Protocols in social networks. The model is motivated by the rise of online social networks and the fast development of automation features in them. In a One-Way architecture, used, e.g., by Twitter, participants can publish status updates and send messages only to their followers. Based on this asymmetric model, we define network consistency, and consider the scenario in which participants make consistent decisions based on their friends' decisions, like in Facebook 'Events'.