process
a logically single-threaded state machine participating in a distributed system
process in a sentence
“Each process maintained its own local view of the shared state.”
Related Words
process dependency
a relationship between subsequent operations performed by the same process
real-time dependency
a relationship between operations where one ends before another begins
read-write dependency
a relationship where operation A reads a version and operation B writes the next version of the same object
session dependency
a relationship between operations within a session performed in total order
version
a specific state an object assumes at a point in time during execution
version order
an ordering over object versions encoding the sequence each object progressed through