Fair mutual exclusion on a graph of processes
β Scribed by Jan L. A. van de Snepscheut
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag
- Year
- 1987
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 255 KB
- Volume
- 2
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0178-2770
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