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Proving Possibility Properties (1995)  (Make Corrections)  (5 citations)
Leslie Lamport Digital Equipment Corporation, 130 Lytton Avenue, Palo Alto,...
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Abstract: A method is described for proving "always possibly" properties of specifications in formalisms with linear-time trace semantics. It is shown to be relatively complete for TLA (Temporal Logic of Actions) specifications. (Update)

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L. Lamport. Proving possibility properties. Technical Report 137, Digital Equipment Corporation, Systems Research Center, July 1995. http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/lamport95proving.html   More

@article{ lamport98proving,
    author = "Leslie Lamport",
    title = "Proving possibility properties",
    journal = "Theoretical Computer Science",
    volume = "206",
    number = "1--2",
    pages = "341--352",
    year = "1998",
    url = "citeseer.ist.psu.edu/lamport95proving.html" }
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725   Temporal and modal logic (context) - Emerson - 1990
293   Hierarchical correctness proofs for distributed algorithms - Lynch, Tuttle - 1987
214   An old-fashioned recipe for real time - Abadi, Lamport - 1994
120   ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems (context) - Lamport, logic - 1994
85   Recognizing safety and liveness - Alpern, Schneider - 1987
35   win and sin: Predicate transformers for concurrency - Lamport - 1990
14   Specifying modules to satisfy interfaces: A state transition.. (context) - Lam, Shankar - 1992
13   Sometime' is sometimes `not never': A tutorial on the tempor.. (context) - Lamport - 1980
9   Ten years of Hoare's logic: A survey---part one (context) - Apt - 1981



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