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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.DISC.2018.50
URN: urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-98392
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Goubault, Éric ; Ledent, Jérémy ; Mimram, Samuel

Brief Announcement: On the Impossibility of Detecting Concurrency

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Abstract

We identify a general principle of distributed computing: one cannot force two processes running in parallel to see each other. This principle is formally stated in the context of asynchronous processes communicating through shared objects, using trace-based semantics. We prove that it holds in a reasonable computational model, and then study the class of concurrent specifications which satisfy this property. This allows us to derive a Galois connection theorem for different variants of linearizability.

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@InProceedings{goubault_et_al:LIPIcs:2018:9839,
  author =	{{\'E}ric Goubault and J{\'e}r{\'e}my Ledent and Samuel Mimram},
  title =	{{Brief Announcement: On the Impossibility of Detecting Concurrency}},
  booktitle =	{32nd International Symposium on Distributed Computing  (DISC 2018)},
  pages =	{50:1--50:4},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-092-7},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2018},
  volume =	{121},
  editor =	{Ulrich Schmid and Josef Widder},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl--Leibniz-Zentrum fuer Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{http://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2018/9839},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-98392},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.DISC.2018.50},
  annote =	{Keywords: concurrent specification, concurrent object, linearizability}
}

Keywords: concurrent specification, concurrent object, linearizability
Collection: 32nd International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC 2018)
Issue Date: 2018
Date of publication: 04.10.2018


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