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We present the first wait-free solution to dining philosophers under eventual weak exclusion in partially synchronous environments subject to crash faults. Potential applications include distributed daemon refinement for self-stabilizing algorithms.
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Pike, S.M., Song, Y., Ghoshal, K. (2006). Brief Announcement: Wait-Free Dining for Eventual Weak Exclusion. In: Datta, A.K., Gradinariu, M. (eds) Stabilization, Safety, and Security of Distributed Systems. SSS 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4280. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-49823-0_46
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