On the extremely fair treatment of probabilistic algorithms

  • Authors:
  • Amir Pnueli

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • STOC '83 Proceedings of the fifteenth annual ACM symposium on Theory of computing
  • Year:
  • 1983

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Abstract

A proof system based on linear temporal logic for the qualitative verification of concurrent probabilistic programs is proposed. The concept of extreme fairness is introduced as an approximation to the notion of probabilistic executions. The proof system proposed is shown to be relatively complete with respect to validity over all extremely fair computations. The proof methodology is demonstrated by proving correctness of a new probabilistic algorithm for solving the mutual exclusion problem ([CLP]).