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On Negotiation as Concurrency Primitive II: Deterministic Cyclic Negotiations

Logic in Computer Science 2016-12-28 v2

Abstract

We continue our study of negotations, a concurrency model with multiparty negotiation as primitive. In a previous paper (arXiv:13072145) we have provided a correct and complete set of reduction rules for sound, acyclic, and (weakly) deterministic negotiations. In this paper we extend this result to all deterministic negotiations, including cyclic ones. We also show that this set of rules allows one to decide soundness and to summarize negotiations in polynomial time.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1403.4958,
  title  = {On Negotiation as Concurrency Primitive II: Deterministic Cyclic Negotiations},
  author = {Javier Esparza and Jörg Desel},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1403.4958},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

Unfortunately, while preparing a journal version of this contribution we have discovered that Lemma 3 is wrong. We have uploaded a preprint of the journal version to arXiv (article 1612.07912). The preprint contains a counterexample to the lemma and a corrected reduction procedure

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