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Abstract Modern distributed data management systems face a new challenge: how can autonomous, mutually distrusting parties cooperate safely and effectively? Addressing this challenge brings up familiar questions from classical systems: to combine multiple steps into single atomic action, recover failures, synchronize concurrent access data. Nevertheless, each of these issues requires rethinking...

Distributed planning in a multiagent environment may give rise to inefficiencies. We study this effect focussing on the task allocation problem. We show that in the worst case, the result of a multiagent approach can be arbitrarily bad in theory when recontracting and multilateral deals are not allowed. This is a more precise result than was previously known, which was that we are not guarantee...