The problems of gossiping and broadcasting in one-way communication mode are investigated. Optimal algorithms for gossip problem are known only for the complete graphs, paths, some simple trees, and cycles. In this paper some lower bounds on gossiping in graphs with bridges or with edge disjoint cycles are proved. A direct consequence of these lower bounds are optimal gossip algorithms for some...

Evolutionary theories concerning the origins of human intelligence suggest that cultural transmission might be biased toward social over non-social information. This was tested by passing social and non-social information along multiple chains of participants. Experiment 1 found that gossip, defined as information about intense third-party social relationships, was transmitted with significantl...

Gossip-based aggregation is an emerging paradigm to perform distributed computations and measurements in a large-scale setting. In this paper we explore the possibility of using gossip-based aggregation to estimate churn in arbitrarily large networks. To this end, we introduce a new model to compute local estimates and formally prove how aggregated values closely match the real churn with high ...

This paper discusses an interpretive case study on feelings and emotions in an information systems (IS) project focusing on the subsequent emotional practices adopted by the IS project members. We analyzed the data from interviews with fourteen IS project members. The analysis revealed the connection between specific feelings (dissatisfaction, fear, irritation, blame, frustration, feeling of fa...

To balance production and consumption on the power grid, efforts are mostly made on the production side. Demand response allows to harness electricity consumption to overcome the constraints brought by the democratisation of renewable energy sources and self-production. In this context, the main problem is to coordinate agents, representing the network’s nodes, in order for them to be able to a...

Abstract This study used shell noun as the starting point to analyze language activities that word shì shí shàng ‘in fact’ by Internet users on PTT , understand truth event this empty signifies; and identify characteristics of pragmatic practice in texts screened noun. Through Tool, posts with more than 100 comments Gossip board during level 3 alert were first out, after which “in fact” identif...