Foundations of a Theory of Specification for Distributed Systems

This thesis investigates a particular approach, called state-transition specification, to the problem of describing the behavior of modules in a distributed or concurrent computer system. A state-transition specification consists of: (1) a state machine, which incorporates the safety or invariance...

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Main Author: Stark, Eugene W.
Other Authors: Lynch, Nancy A.
Published: 2023
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/149612