The physics of distributed information systems

ELC International Meeting on Inference, Computation, and Spin Glasses

Aurell, Erik^1,2,3

Aalto University School of Science, Helsinki, Finland^1

ACCESS Linnaeus Centre, KTH, Stockholm, Sweden^2

Department Computational Biology, AlbaNova University Centre, Stockholm 106 91, Sweden^3

关键词: Dijkstra;    Distributed information systems;    Distributed systems;    Entry point;    Growth process;    Relativity theory;    Technical languages;   

Others  :  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1742-6596/473/1/012017/pdf
DOI  :  10.1088/1742-6596/473/1/012017

来源: IOP

【 摘 要 】

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.