ACTA
2011
13 years 6 months ago
2011
A simple mutual exclusion algorithm is presented that only uses nonatomic shared variables of bounded size, and that satisfies bounded overtaking. When the shared variables behave...
WDAG
1993
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
1993
Springer
Fairness is an important concept in design and implementation of distributed systems. At the specification level, fairness usually serves as an assumption for proving liveness. At ...
IFM
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
2005
Springer
Abstract. We present a fixpoint semantics of event systems. The semantics is presented in a general framework without concerns of fairness. Soundness and completeness of rules for...
WDAG
2007
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
2007
Springer
Abstract. Weak fairness guarantees that if an action is continuously enabled, it is executed infinitely often. Strong fairness, on the other hand, guarantees that actions that are...