Gossip is a subject that has been studied by researchers from an array of disciplines with various foci and methods. We measured the content of language use by members of a competitive sports team across 18 months, integrating qualitative ethnographic methods with quantitative sampling and analysis. We hypothesized that the use of gossip will vary significantly depending on whether it is used f...

College students ranked the interest value of 12 different gossip scenarios; likelihood of spreading the gossip; and the people to whom they would be most likely to tell the gossip, depending on whether the gossip was about male or female professors, relatives, friends, acquaintances, strangers, or a same-sex rival or a romantic partner. Damaging, negative news about rivals and positive news ab...

Gossip protocols have been proposed as a robust and efficient method for disseminating information throughout large-scale networks. In this paper, we propose a compositional analysis technique to study formal probabilistic models of gossip protocols in the context of wireless sensor networks. We adopt a simple probabilistic timed process calculus for modellingwireless sensor networks. We equip ...

The design of efficient gossip-based protocols for computing aggregate functions in wireless sensor network has received considerable attention recently. A primary reason for this surge in interest is their robustness due to their randomized nature. In addition, because of the inherent simplicity in their design, gossip-based protocols are suitable to be implemented on sensor nodes with limited...

Distributed gossip algorithm has been studied in literature for practical implementation of the distributed consensus algorithm as a fundamental algorithm for the purpose of in-network collaborative processing. This paper focuses on optimizing the convergence rate of the gossip algorithm for both classical and quantum networks. A novel model of the gossip algorithm with non-uniform clock distri...

Gossip can promote cooperation via reputational concern. However, the relative effectiveness of positive and negative gossip in fostering prosociality has not been examined. The present study explored influence on prosocial behavior, using an economic game. Supporting previous evidence, it was found that individuals were more when any kind possible, compared to their behavior completely anonymo...

The problems of gossiping and broadcasting have been widely studied. The basic gossip problem is defined as follows: there are n individuals, with each individual having an item of gossip. The goal is to communicate each item of gossip to every other individual. Communication typically proceeds in rounds, with the objective of minimizing the number of rounds. One popular model, called the telep...

Gossip algorithms have recently received significant attention, mainly because they constitute simple and robust algorithms for distributed information processing over networks. However for many topologies that are realistic for wireless ad-hoc and sensor networks (like grids and random geometric graphs), the standard nearest-neighbor gossip converges very slowly. A recently proposed algorithm ...

This paper examines the study of gossip (godsib being the classical term) in human communities. In particular, we compare and contrast the study of gossip in the humanities and compare it with the development of gossip techniques as communication primitives in computer science. Distributed computer systems designers have developed various gossip based techniques for efficient communication and ...

Gossip, protocols have emerged to serve as building blocks to applications with high reliability requirements. However, a generic gossip solution may not be sufficient to ensure competitive performance in specific topologies such as in datacenter networks. This work addresses the problem of optimizing gossip-based protocols for use in datacenters. It starts by making a survey of different techn...