Comment by sn9
2 years ago
Unrelated, but have you heard of Distributed Computing Through Combinatorial Topology? Seems up your alley.
Distributed Computing Through Combinatorial Topology: https://www.amazon.com/Distributed-Computing-Through-Combina...
This seems up my alley, but I suspect the techniques in that book aren't used, since I have spent a lot of time chasing down applications of computational topology only to find they weren't as useful as advertised.
Are you aware of anyone who uses these methods? Would be good for my book Practical Math
I've only skimmed my way through it, but it seems like the bulk of the research started in 2000 so it would be fairly new.
It might still be just academic research at this point, but it at least seems to show some pretty interesting abstractions with which to analyze systems.
It came out in 2013, so if it is used in industry after that point, the book wouldn't say and you'd have to go hunting for whitepapers that cite the research probably.