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Self-stabilizing systems in spite of distributed control
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Volume 17 ,  Issue 11  (November 1974) table of contents
Pages: 643 - 644  
Year of Publication: 1974
ISSN:0001-0782
Author
Edsger W. Dijkstra  Burroughs Corp., Nuenen, The Netherlands
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ACM  New York, NY, USA
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ABSTRACT

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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Scholten, C.S. Private communication.

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