The Byzantine Generals Problem
The work
| Title | The Byzantine Generals Problem |
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| Authors | Leslie Lamport; Robert Shostak; Marshall Pease |
| Type | article |
| Year | 1982 |
| Citekey | lamport1982byzantine |
Where it appeared
| Published in | ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems |
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| Publisher | Association for Computing Machinery |
| Volume | 4 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 382--401 |
Identifiers
| DOI | 10.1145/357172.357176 |
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Access
| Landing page | https://doi.org/10.1145/357172.357176 |
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| Free full text | https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/357172.357176 |
Copy held
| Kind | PDF, 1.2 MB |
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| Retrieved | 2026-08-06 |
| Held | local, for personal reference |
| Where it came from | https://doi.org/10.1145/357172.357176 |
Where this came from
| How it got here | the agent went looking · found via unpaywall |
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| First seen | 2026-08-05 |
| Standing | endorsed |
| Approved | 2026-08-06 |
Cite it as
@article{lamport1982byzantine,
title = {The Byzantine Generals Problem},
author = {Leslie Lamport and Robert Shostak and Marshall Pease},
year = {1982},
journal = {ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems},
volume = {4},
number = {3},
pages = {382--401},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
doi = {10.1145/357172.357176},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/357172.357176},
}
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