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ESOP
2009
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Deny-Guarantee Reasoning
Abstract. Rely-guarantee is a well-established approach to reasoning about concurrent programs that use parallel composition. However, parallel composition is not how concurrency i...
Mike Dodds, Xinyu Feng, Matthew J. Parkinson, Vikt...
ACSD
2006
IEEE
154views Hardware» more  ACSD 2006»
14 years 3 months ago
Concurrency in Distributed Systems under Autonomous and Enforced Actions
Recently, the formal approach of I–Systems has been newly hed through an abstract axiomatic system where events in system components are solely derived and defined from their b...
Arnim Wedig, Horst F. Wedde, Anca M. Lazarescu, El...
IJIS
2010
110views more  IJIS 2010»
13 years 7 months ago
The ramification problem in temporal databases: Concurrent execution
In this paper we study the ramification problem in the setting of temporal databases. Standard solutions from the literature on reasoning about action are inadequate because they ...
Nikos Papadakis, Dimitris Plexousakis, Grigoris An...
ATAL
2007
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Knowledge and observations in the situation calculus
We present a powerful new account of multi-agent knowledge in the situation calculus and an effective reasoning procedure for handling knowledge queries. Our approach generalizes...
Ryan F. Kelly, Adrian R. Pearce
PODC
1994
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Open Systems in TLA
We describe a method for writing assumption/guarantee specifications of concurrent systems. We also provide a proof rule for reasoning about the composition of these systems. Spec...
Martín Abadi, Leslie Lamport