Sam Toueg

12.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
103 papers, 6.3k citations indexed

About

Sam Toueg is a scholar working on Computer Networks and Communications, Computational Theory and Mathematics and Hardware and Architecture. According to data from OpenAlex, Sam Toueg has authored 103 papers receiving a total of 6.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 94 papers in Computer Networks and Communications, 21 papers in Computational Theory and Mathematics and 18 papers in Hardware and Architecture. Recurrent topics in Sam Toueg's work include Distributed systems and fault tolerance (81 papers), Optimization and Search Problems (46 papers) and Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques (15 papers). Sam Toueg is often cited by papers focused on Distributed systems and fault tolerance (81 papers), Optimization and Search Problems (46 papers) and Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques (15 papers). Sam Toueg collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and France. Sam Toueg's co-authors include Tushar Chandra, Vassos Hadzilacos, Marcos K. Aguilera, Gabriel Bracha, T K Srikanth, Wei Chen, Amr El Abbadi, Gil Neiger, Prasad Jayanti and Özalp Babaoğlu and has published in prestigious journals such as IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Journal of the ACM and IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering.

In The Last Decade

Sam Toueg

101 papers receiving 5.6k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Unreliable failure detectors for reliable distributed systems

1996 1.4k citations Tushar Chandra, Sam Toueg profile →
Checkpointing and Rollback-Recovery for Distributed Systems

1987 550 citations Sam Toueg et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sam Toueg United States	35	6.1k	1.6k	954	714	667	103	6.3k
P. M. Melliar‐Smith United States	30	3.6k 0.6×	1.1k 0.7×	506 0.5×	869 1.2×	755 1.1×	180	4.3k
William E. Weihl United States	29	2.8k 0.5×	1.7k 1.0×	269 0.3×	738 1.0×	650 1.0×	86	3.4k
Hagit Attiya Israel	29	3.1k 0.5×	1.1k 0.7×	595 0.6×	221 0.3×	554 0.8×	158	3.3k
Dahlia Malkhi United States	36	3.8k 0.6×	426 0.3×	377 0.4×	1.3k 1.9×	1.2k 1.8×	138	4.6k
J. Eliot B. Moss United States	39	4.4k 0.7×	4.1k 2.5×	317 0.3×	1.5k 2.1×	2.3k 3.5×	136	6.3k
Andrew Birrell United States	23	4.7k 0.8×	1.6k 1.0×	200 0.2×	2.4k 3.3×	1.0k 1.6×	57	5.5k
André Schiper Switzerland	22	2.5k 0.4×	582 0.4×	274 0.3×	439 0.6×	223 0.3×	102	2.6k
Dan Grossman United States	32	2.2k 0.4×	2.2k 1.4×	426 0.4×	1.1k 1.5×	1.9k 2.8×	135	4.3k
Lorenzo Alvisi United States	36	4.7k 0.8×	1.8k 1.1×	141 0.1×	1.6k 2.2×	890 1.3×	97	5.9k
L.E. Moser United States	26	2.5k 0.4×	597 0.4×	282 0.3×	689 1.0×	520 0.8×	122	2.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Sam Toueg

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Fields of papers citing papers by Sam Toueg

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sam Toueg

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Hadzilacos, Vassos, et al.. (2021). Randomized consensus with regular registers. Information Processing Letters. 174. 106173–106173. 1 indexed citations

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Chan, David, Vassos Hadzilacos, & Sam Toueg. (2017). On the Number of Objects with Distinct Power and the Linearizability of Set Agreement Objects. DROPS (Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz Center for Informatics). 2 indexed citations

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Hadzilacos, Vassos & Sam Toueg. (2013). On deterministic abortable objects. 4–12. 6 indexed citations

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Delporte-Gallet, Carole, Hugues Fauconnier, Rachid Guerraoui, et al.. (2004). The weakest failure detectors to solve certain fundamental problems in distributed computing. Infoscience (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne). 338–346. 56 indexed citations

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Aguilera, Marcos K., Wei Chen, & Sam Toueg. (1999). Using the heartbeat failure detector for quiescent reliable communication and consensus in partitionable networks. Theoretical Computer Science. 220(1). 3–30. 60 indexed citations

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Aguilera, Marcos K., Wei Chen, & Sam Toueg. (1997). On the Weakest Failure Detector for Quiescent Reliable Communication. eCommons (Cornell University). 2 indexed citations

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Jayanti, Prasad, et al.. (1996). Time and space lower bounds for non-blocking implementations (preliminary version). 257–266. 3 indexed citations

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Chandra, Tushar, Vassos Hadzilacos, Prasad Jayanti, & Sam Toueg. (1994). Wait-Freedom vs. t-Resiliency and the Robustness of Wait-Free Hierarchies.. 334–343. 13 indexed citations

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Babaoğlu, Özalp & Sam Toueg. (1993). Non-blocking atomic commitment. 147–168. 20 indexed citations

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Hadzilacos, Vassos & Sam Toueg. (1993). Fault-tolerant broadcasts and related problems. 97–145. 272 indexed citations

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Anderson, Jim & Sam Toueg. (1993). Proceedings of the twelfth annual ACM symposium on Principles of distributed computing. 5 indexed citations

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Budhiraja, Navin, Keith Marzullo, Fred B. Schneider, & Sam Toueg. (1993). The primary-backup approach. 199–216. 203 indexed citations

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Babaoğlu, Özalp & Sam Toueg. (1993). Understanding Non-Blocking Atomic Commitment. 7 indexed citations

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Budhiraja, Navin, et al.. (1991). Early-Stopping Distributed Bidding and Applications (Preliminary Version). 304–320. 2 indexed citations

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Abbadi, Amr El & Sam Toueg. (1989). Maintaining Availability in Partitioned Replicated Databases. 6 indexed citations

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Toueg, Sam, et al.. (1988). Effects of message loss on the termination of distributed protocols. Information Processing Letters. 27(4). 181–188. 14 indexed citations

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Neiger, Gil & Sam Toueg. (1988). Automatically increasing the fault-tolerance of distributed systems. 248–262. 33 indexed citations

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Toueg, Sam, et al.. (1986). Checkpointing and rollback-recovery for distributed systems. 1150–1158. 32 indexed citations

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Joseph, Thomas, et al.. (1986). State machines and assertions: An integrated approach to modeling and verification of distributed systems. Science of Computer Programming. 7. 1–22. 3 indexed citations

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Bridges, William & Sam Toueg. (1980). On the impossibility of Directed Moore Graphs. Journal of Combinatorial Theory Series B. 29(3). 339–341. 95 indexed citations

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