Paper 2013/432 Original: eprint.iacr.org/2013/432 ↗
How to Sign Paper Contracts? Conjectures & Evidence Related to Equitable & Efficient Collaborative Task Scheduling
Abstract
This paper explores ways of performing commutative tasks by $N$ parties. Tasks are defined as {\sl commutative} if the order at which parties perform tasks can be freely changed without affecting the final result. It is easy to see that arbitrary $N$-party commutative tasks cannot be completed in less than $N-1$ basic time units. We conjecture that arbitrary $N$-party commutative tasks cannot be performed in $N-1$ time units by exchanging less than $4N-6$ messages and provide computational evidence in favor this conjecture. We also explore the most equitable commutative task protocols.
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- Foundations
- Publication info
- Preprint.
- History
- 2013-07-13: last updated
- 2013-07-13: published
- Short URL
- https://ia.cr/2013/432
- License
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
BibTeX
@misc{cryptoeprint:2013/432,
author = {Eric Brier and David Naccache and Li-yao Xia},
title = {How to Sign Paper Contracts? Conjectures & Evidence Related to Equitable & Efficient Collaborative Task Scheduling},
howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2013/432},
year = {2013},
url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2013/432}
}