Terminating Alternator

Sandeep S. Kulkarni

Abstract

In this paper, we present an program that enables the transformation of a non-terminating alternator into a terminating alternator. Our solution is stabilization preserving and has the potential to preserve maximal concurrency (if available) provided by the non-terminating alternator. It can also be used to transform a program that is stabilizing in interleaving semantics into a program that is stabilizing in powerset semantics. We also discuss how the terminating alternator can be used to enable a process to gain an understanding of system stability.

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