This paper studies a variation of the gossiping problem, where there are n persons, each of whom initially has a message. A pair of persons can pass all messages they have by making one telephone call. The exact gossiping problem is to determine the minimum n,,mi~er of calls for each person to know
The gossip problem
β Scribed by Gerald Berman
- Book ID
- 103057467
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1973
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 75 KB
- Volume
- 4
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0012-365X
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