A Logical Study of Distributed Transition Systems

@article{Lodaya1995ALS,
  title={A Logical Study of Distributed Transition Systems},
  author={Kamal Lodaya and Rohit Parikh and Ramaswamy Ramanujam and P. S. Thiagarajan},
  journal={Inf. Comput.},
  year={1995},
  volume={119},
  pages={91-118}
}
We extend labelled transition systems to distributed transition systems by labelling the transition relation with a finite set of actions, representing the fact that the actions occur as a concurrent step. We design an addition-based temporal logic in which one can explicity talk about steps. The logic is studied to establish a variety of positive and negative results in terms of axiomatizability and decidability. Our positive results show that the step notion is amenable to logical treatment… 
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