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University of Bonn
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Axioms for Concurrent Processes

Armin B. Cremers and Thomas N. Hibbard

The theoretical construct data space is intended for modeling computing processes in general [1, 2, 3] and proved of considerable utility in modelling algorithms designed for VLSI [4, 5]. It is here applied, along with a sharpened definition of subspace, to the formalization of two notions of concurrent processing: the functional equivalence of message passing and shared memory, and the mutual exclusion problem. A method for constructing big mutual exclusion schemes from small ones is presented formally.

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