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arXiv — cs.AI preprintsInternational16 October 2026

Volition Elicitation: Operational Semantics for People and Their Machines

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arXiv:2607.14138v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The most prevalent distributed systems today include people and their personal machines (smartphones), and computations in them are driven by people's volitions. Volition-guarded multiagent atomic transactions were proposed as an abstract specification language for such systems, in which a transaction has a precondition on the machine states of its participants and is guarded by the volitions of some of them. Here we develop an abstraction cascade that derives smartphone apps from such specifications and prove it correct down to the bas
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