A Simple Approach to Specifying Concurrent Systems
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This is a “popular” account of the transition-axiom method that I introduced in [50]. To make the ideas more accessible, I wrote it in a question-answer style that I copied from the dialogues of Galileo. The writing in this paper may be the best I’ve ever done.
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