Identity fusion is a relatively unexplored form of alignment with groups that entails a visceral feeling of oneness with the group. This feeling is associated with unusually porous, highly permeable borders between the personal and social self. These porous borders encourage people to channel their personal agency into group behavior, raising the possibility that the personal and social self wi...

From early childhood onward, individuals use behavior copying to communicate liking and belonging. This non-verbal signal of affiliation is especially relevant in the context of social groups and indeed both children and adults copy in-group more than out-group members. Given the societal importance of inter-group interactions, it is imperative to understand the mechanistic level at which group...

Several distributed peer-to-peer applications require weakly-consistent knowledge of process group membership information at all participating processes. SWIM is a generic software module that offers this service for largescale process groups. The SWIM effort is motivated by the unscalability of traditional heart-beating protocols, which either impose network loads that grow quadratically with ...

An accumulator scheme, introduced be Benaloh and de Mare [BdM94] and further studied by Barić and Pfitzmann [BP97], is an algorithm that allows to hash a large set of inputs into one short value, called the accumulator, such that there is a short witness that a given input was incorporated into the accumulator. We put forward the notion of dynamic accumulators, i.e., a method that allows to dyn...

ÐThis paper presents a solvable specification and gives an algorithm for the Group Membership Problem in asynchronous systems with crash failures. Our specification requires processes to maintain a consistent history in their sequences of views. This allows processes to order failures and recoveries in time and simplifies the programming of high level applications. Previous work has proven that...