The paper "Failure Detectors Encapsulate Fairness" has been accepted as a brief announcement at the 24th International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC 2010).
The abstract:
We argue that failure detectors encapsulate fairness. Fairness is a measure of the number of steps a process takes relative to another processes and/or messages in transit. As evidence we specify fairness-based message-passing system models that are the weakest to implement the failure detectors from [1].
[1] Chandra, T. D. and Toueg, S. 1996. Unreliable failure detectors for reliable distributed systems. J. ACM 43, 2 (Mar. 1996), 225-267. DOI= http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/226643.226647