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A synchronous program algebra: a basis for reasoning about shared-memory and event-based concurrency
This research started with an algebra for reasoning about rely/guarantee
concurrency for a shared memory model. The approach taken led to a more
abstract algebra of atomic steps, in which atomic steps synchronise (rather
than interleave) when composed in parallel. The algebra of rely/guarantee
concurrency then becomes an instantiation of the more abstract algebra. Many of
the core properties needed for rely/guarantee reasoning can be shown to hold in
the abstract algebra where their proofs are simpler and hence allow a higher
degree of automation. The algebra has been encoded in Isabelle/HOL to provide a
basis for tool support for program verification.
In rely/guarantee concurrency, programs are specified to guarantee certain
behaviours until assumptions about the behaviour of their environment are
violated. When assumptions are violated, program behaviour is unconstrained
(aborting), and guarantees need no longer hold. To support these guarantees a
second synchronous operator, weak conjunction, was introduced: both processes
in a weak conjunction must agree to take each atomic step, unless one aborts in
which case the whole aborts. In developing the laws for parallel and weak
conjunction we found many properties were shared by the operators and that the
proofs of many laws were essentially the same. This insight led to the idea of
generalising synchronisation to an abstract operator with only the axioms that
are shared by the parallel and weak conjunction operator, so that those two
operators can be viewed as instantiations of the abstract synchronisation
operator. The main differences between parallel and weak conjunction are how
they combine individual atomic steps; that is left open in the axioms for the
abstract operator.Comment: Extended version of a Formal Methods 2016 paper, "An algebra of
synchronous atomic steps
Balancing Efficiency, Equity, and Voice in Workplace Resolution Procedures
Systems for resolving workplace disputes are very important to workers and firms, and have been the subject of much debate. In the United States, traditional unionized grievance procedures, emerging nonunion dispute resolution systems, and the court-based system for resolving employment law disputes have all been criticized. Much of the existing debate on workplace dispute resolution, however, has been atheoretical, with a focus on techniques of dispute resolution rather than the goals of the system. What is missing from the debate are fundamental standards for comparing and evaluating dispute resolutions systems. In this paper, we develop efficiency, equity, and voice as these standards. Unionized, nonunion, and employment law procedures are then evaluated against these three standards.
Alien Registration- Colvin, John J. (Portland, Cumberland County)
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Alien Registration- Colvin, John J. (Portland, Cumberland County)
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Alien Registration- Colvin, John J. (Portland, Cumberland County)
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HIV/AIDS, chronic diseases and globalisation
HIV/AIDS has always been one of the most thoroughly global of diseases. In the era of widely available anti-retroviral therapy (ART), it is also commonly recognised as a chronic disease that can be successfully managed on a long-term basis. This article examines the chronic character of the HIV/AIDS pandemic and highlights some of the changes we might expect to see at the global level as HIV is increasingly normalised as "just another chronic disease". The article also addresses the use of this language of chronicity to interpret the HIV/AIDS pandemic and calls into question some of the consequences of an uncritical acceptance of concepts of chronicity
The Relationship Between Employment Arbitration and Workplace Dispute Resolution Procedures
Published in cooperation with the American Bar Association Section of Dispute Resolutio
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