coobservable

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/ˌkəʊ.əbˈzɜːɹ.və.bəl/

adjective

Of a behaviour in a distributed system: such that decisions can be made by each site based on what it observes, without the need for input from other sites.

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Meanings

adjectivecoobservable (not comparable)

alternative co-observable

  1. not comparablecomputingOf a behaviour in a distributed system: such that decisions can be made by each site based on what it observes, without the need for input from other sites.

    In this paper, we show how to compute a controllable and coobservable sublanguage of the specification in a computationally efficient way.

    2015, Jan Komenda, Tomáš Masopust, “On the Computation of Controllable and Coobservable Sublanguages in Decentralized Supervisory Control”, in arXiv

Origin

From co- + observable.

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