Volition Elicitation: Operational Semantics for People and Their Machines
The most prevalent distributed systems today include people and their personal machines (smartphones), and computations in them are driven by people's volitions. Volition-guarded multiagent atomic transactions were proposed as an abstract specification language for such systems, in which a transaction has a precondition on the machine states of its participants and is guarded by the volitions of some of them. Here we develop an abstraction cascade that derives smartphone apps from such specifications and prove it correct down to the base programming language, GLP. The cascade consists of: (1) communicating volitional agents (CVA), which implement every local volition-guarded specification...
| Authors | Idit Keidar, Ehud Shapiro |
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| Primary category | cs.PL |
| Published | 10 July 2026 |
| Last updated at source | 15 October 2026 |
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