On-The-Fly Analysis of Distributed Computations

At some abstraction level a distributed computation can be modeled as a partial order on a set of observable events. This paper presents an analysis technique which can be superimposed on distributed computations to analyze the structure of control flows terminating at observable events. A general algorithm working on the longest control flows of distributed computations is introduced. Moreover it is shown how this algorithm can be simplified according to the position of observable events with respect to communication events.