# Index * [**Time, Clocks, and the Ordering of Events in a Distributed System**](https://lamport.azurewebsites.net/pubs/time-clocks.pdf) - Lamport 1978 * [**Impossibility of Distributed Consensus with One Faulty Process**](https://groups.csail.mit.edu/tds/papers/Lynch/jacm85.pdf) - Fischer et al., 1985 * [**Using Reasoning About Knowledge to analyze Distributed Systems**](https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev.cs.02.060187.000345) - Halpern 1987 * [**A Note on Distributed Computing**](http://www.psinaptic.com/link_files/distributed_computing.pdf) - Waldo et al., 1994 * [**CAP Twelve Years Later: How the “Rules” Have Changed** ](https://www.infoq.com/articles/cap-twelve-years-later-how-the-rules-have-changed/)- Brewer 2012 --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://xzhu0027.gitbook.io/blog/seminal-theory/index.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.