@MISC{Prasetya96formalizingunity, author = {I. S. W. B. Prasetya}, title = {Formalizing UNITY with HOL}, year = {1996} }
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T HIS paper has been written for the IPA workshop in Egmond aan Zee, 16-20 october 1995. Despite its size, it is intended as an introduction ---a quick tour--- to the technology of mechanical verification and the formal design of distributed algorithms, and is not intended to be complete. Nevertheless it will provide the necessary information for the reader to understand the topics. For further reading on the topics, the reader can try the introduction book to HOL [GM93] and the book of UNITY [CM88]. Most of this paper is taken from my Ph.D. thesis. If the reader is interested in further technical details, my thesis is available through ftp at: ftp.cs.ruu.nl in directory pub/RUU/CS/phdtheses/Prasetya Chapter 1 Introduction T HE role of distributed programs has become increasingly important as more and more people hook their computers together, either locally or world-wide. The technology of computer networks advances rapidly and so is its availability. Today, it is no longer a lux...