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Defining Liveness by Bowen Alpern and others 2026-10-13
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Online text: www.cs.cornell.edu/fbs/publications/DefLiveness.pdf
Cited passages: Defining Liveness, sections 2–3, printed pp. 181–182: mutual exclusion, finite witnesses to safety violations, and eventual service; Section 2, printed pp. 181–182: finite irremediable prefixes; Section 3, printed p. 182: every finite prefix can still be extended to satisfy a liveness property.
Fred B. Schneider Created 2026-10-13 Updated 2026-11-05
Fred B. Schneider studies dependable concurrent computing and distributed systems, including fault tolerance and computer security.[ref]
https://www.cs.cornell.edu/fbs/. research statement
He coauthored Defining Liveness by Bowen Alpern and others, which distinguishes a safety property from a liveness property: finite behaviour can establish an irreparable safety violation, whereas every finite behaviour prefix can still be extended to satisfy the liveness requirement.[ref]
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