| TR#: | CS0496 |
| Class: | CS |
| Title: | Probabilistic Termination Versus Fair Termination |
| Authors: | Michael Tiomkin |
| CS0496.pdf | |
| Abstract: | In this paper we show that probabilistic termination of concurrent program is in many cases much simpler than the "fair" one. For a wide class of definitions of probabilistic termination we may express termination by rrf arithmetic formula, whereas the "fair" termination can be expressed only by rrf secqnd order arithmetic formula. Proof of "fair" termination usually needs induction on recursive ordinals, but proof of probabilistic termination has the complexity equivalent to that of detepninistic program termination. |
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