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Self-stabilizing systems in spite of distributed control
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The synchronization task between loosely coupled cyclic sequential processes (as can be distinguished in, for instance, operating systems) can be viewed as keeping the relation “the system is in a legitimate state” invariant. As a result, each individual process step that could possibly cause violation of that relation has to be preceded by a test deciding whether the process in question is allowed to proceed or has to be delayed. The resulting design is readily—and quite systematically—implemented if the different processes can be granted mutually exclusive access to a common store in which “the current system state” is recorded.
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- Authors
- Dijkstra, E. W.
- Venue
- Communications of the ACM
- Published
- 1974-11
- Volume
- 17
- Issue
- 11
- Pages
- 643-644
- ISSN
- 0001-0782 (ISSN-L)
- 1557-7317
- OpenAlex
- W2111132249
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- FWCI
- 2.74
- Type
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- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
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