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Monitors with arrays of condition variables and proof rules handling local quantities

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Hoare's proof rules for signal and wait operations on condition variables are extended to handle predicates with quantities local to the signaling and waiting procedure instance and arrays of condition variables. A number of examples are given including an alarmclock and a disk head scheduler.

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  1. Institute of Informatics, University of Oslo, Blindern, Oslo 3, Norway

    Stein Gjessing

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Gjessing, S. Monitors with arrays of condition variables and proof rules handling local quantities. BIT 20, 137–144 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01933186

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