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Title: Paxos (computer science) Authors: Venue: Wikipedia Year: unknown Canonical: wiki:paxos-computer-science URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paxos_(computer_science) Collector: wikipedia OA: true ABSTRACT In computer science, Paxos is a family of protocols for solving consensus in a network of unreliable or fallible processors. Consensus is the process of agreeing on one result among a group of participants. This problem becomes difficult when the participants or their communications may experience failures.