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Brief Announcement: On Decidability of 2-Process Affine Models

Authors Petr Kuznetsov, Thibault Rieutord

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  • Theory of computation → Distributed computing models
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  • Affine tasks
  • Decidability

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Abstract

Affine models of computation, defined as subsets of iterated immediate-snapshot runs, capture a wide variety of shared-memory systems: wait-freedom, t-resilience, k-concurrency, and fair shared-memory adversaries. The question of whether a given task is solvable in a given affine model is, in general, undecidable. 
In this paper, we focus on affine models defined for a system of two processes. We show that task computability of 2-process affine models is decidable and presents a complete hierarchy of five equivalence classes of 2-process affine models.

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Petr Kuznetsov and Thibault Rieutord. Brief Announcement: On Decidability of 2-Process Affine Models. In 34th International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC 2020). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 179, pp. 54:1-54:3, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2020) https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.DISC.2020.54

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Petr Kuznetsov
  • LTCI, Télécom Paris, Institut Polytechnique Paris, France
Thibault Rieutord
  • CEA LIST, PC 174, Gif-sur-Yvette, France

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