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Ordinary transition systems form the basis of many process theories, but they only allow a faithful description of sequential, possibly non-deterministic processes. In this chapter, distributed transition systems are introduced which provide a formalism for modeling parallel and distributed systems.
A distributed system is one that stops you from getting any work done when a machine you’ve never even heared of crashes.
L. Lamport, in S. Mullender, Distributed Systems, 1st ed.
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Cap, C.H. (2000). Distributed Transition Systems. In: A Calculus of Distributed and Parallel Processes. Teubner-Texte zur Informatik, vol 31. Vieweg+Teubner Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-322-86763-6_3
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