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Alphabets of Acyclic Invariant Structures

Lookup NU author(s): Professor Maciej KoutnyORCiD, Dr Lukasz Mikulski

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Abstract

A step trace is an equivalence class of step sequences, where the equivalence is determined by dependencies between pairs of actions expressed as potential simultaneity and sequentialisability. Step traces can be represented by invariant structures with two relations: mutual exclusion and (possibly cyclic) weak causality.An important issue concerning invariant structures is to decide whether an invariant structure represents a step trace over a given step alphabet. For the general case this problem has been solved and an effective decision procedure has been proposed.In this paper, we restrict the class of order structures being considered with the aim of achieving a better characterisation. Requiring that the weak causality relation is acyclic, makes it possible to solve the problem in a purely local way, by considering pairs of events, rather than whole structures.


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Author(s): Janicki R, Kleijn J, Koutny M, Mikulski L

Publication type: Article

Publication status: Published

Journal: Fundamenta Informaticae

Year: 2017

Volume: 154

Issue: 1-4

Pages: 207-224

Online publication date: 09/08/2017

Acceptance date: 07/06/2017

Date deposited: 18/08/2017

ISSN (print): 0169-2968

ISSN (electronic): 1875-8681

Publisher: IOS Press

URL: https://doi.org/10.3233/FI-2017-1562

DOI: 10.3233/FI-2017-1562


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