Institutionalised Paxos Consensus
DAVID R. SANDERSON, Jeremy V. Pitt · Frontiers in artificial intelligence and applications · 2012
We address the problem of maintaining consistency in systems that are open, decentralised and resource-constrained, where the system components are highly mobile and/or ‘volatile’. An example of these systems is found in vehicular ad hoc networks (VANET). Self-organising and norm-governed electronic institutions have been proposed to address these issues, but the problem of maintaining the consistency of conventionally-agreed values (institutional facts) arises due to the fragmentation/aggregation of component clusters, role failure, and revision of agreed values.