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2009 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
Fairness
Erschienen in: Verification of Sequential and Concurrent Programs
Verlag: Springer London
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As We Have seen in the zero search example of Chapter 1, fairness is an important hypothesis in the study of parallel programs. Fairness models the idea of “true parallelism,” where every component of a parallel program progresses with unknown, but positive speed. In other words, every component eventually executes its next enabled atomic instruction. Semantically, fairness can be viewed as an attempt at reducing the amount of nondeterminism in the computations of programs. Therefore fairness can be studied in any setting where nondeterminism arises. In this chapter we study fairness in the simplest possible setting of this book, the class of non-deterministic programs studied in Chapter 10.