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Verification of Liveness Properties in Distributed Systems

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Contemporary Computing (IC3 2009)

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This paper presents liveness properties that need to be preserved by Event-B models of distributed systems. Event-B is a formal technique for development of models of distributed systems related via refinement. In this paper we outline how enabledness preservation and non-divergence are related to the liveness properties of the B models of the distributed systems. We address the liveness issues related to our model of distributed transactions and outline the construction of proof obligations that need to be discharged to ensure liveness.

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  1. Institute of Engineering and Technology, U P Technical University, Lucknow, India

    Divakar Yadav

  2. School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, UK

    Michael Butler

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  1. Dept. of Computer Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, 32611, USA

    Sanjay Ranka

  2. Laurence H. Baker Center for Bioinformatics and Biological Statistics, Iowa State University, USA

    Srinivas Aluru

  3. Grid Computing and Distributed Systems Laboratory and, NICTA Victoria Laboratory, Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, The University of Melbourne, Australia

    Rajkumar Buyya

  4. Department of Computer Science, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan

    Yeh-Ching Chung

  5. Computer Science, College of Engineering and Science, Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, LA, 71272, USA

    Sumeet Dua  & Vir V. Phoha  & 

  6. Department of Computer Sciences, Purdue University, W. Lafayette, IN, 47907, USA

    Ananth Grama

  7. Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, 85281, USA

    Sandeep K. S. Gupta

  8. Computer Science and Engineering Department, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, 721 302, WB, India

    Rajeev Kumar

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Yadav, D., Butler, M. (2009). Verification of Liveness Properties in Distributed Systems. In: Ranka, S., et al. Contemporary Computing. IC3 2009. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 40. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-03547-0_59

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