English

On Negotiation as Concurrency Primitive

Logic in Computer Science 2013-07-09 v1 Formal Languages and Automata Theory

Abstract

We introduce negotiations, a model of concurrency close to Petri nets, with multiparty negotiation as primitive. We study the problems of soundness of negotiations and of, given a negotiation with possibly many steps, computing a summary, i.e., an equivalent one-step negotiation. We provide a complete set of reduction rules for sound, acyclic, weakly deterministic negotiations and show that, for deterministic negotiations, the rules compute the summary in polynomial time.

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@article{arxiv.1307.2145,
  title  = {On Negotiation as Concurrency Primitive},
  author = {Javier Esparza and Joerg Desel},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1307.2145},
  year   = {2013}
}
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