Kindler, E.E.KindlerWalter, R.R.Walter2022-03-032022-03-031997https://publica.fraunhofer.de/handle/publica/19085310.1016/S0020-0190(97)00033-1In this paper it is shown that a concept of fairness is actually necessary even to solve the classical mutual exclusion problem. This result justifies a distinction between problems which need fairness assumtions and problems which do not.endistributed systemsfairnessmatual exclusionpartial-order semanticspetri netprogress004400journal article