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README

This case study is based on Lehmann and Rabin's solution to the well known dining philosophers problem [LR81].

It considers the version presented in [DFP04] which removes the need to consider 'fairness' assumptions on the scheduling mechanism.

For more information, see: http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~dxp/prism/casestudies/phil.html

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[LR81]
D. Lehmann and M. Rabin
On the Advantages of Free Choice: A Symmetric Fully Distributed Solution to the Dining Philosophers Problem (Extended Abstract)
In Proc. 8th Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages, pp. 133-138, 1981

[DFP04]
M. Duflot, L. Fribourg and C. Picaronny
Randomized dining philosophers without fairness assumption
Distributed Computing, 17(1):65-76, 2004