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README

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

and the analysis of this algorithm by Lynch, Saias and Segala [LSS94].

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

LSS94]
N. Lynch, I. Saias and R. Segala
Proving Time Bounds for Randomized Distributed Algorithms
In Proc. 13th ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing, pp. 314-323, 1994