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pith:35NPC75S

pith:2026:35NPC75S5EKFLFAHQMZT3BOCID

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Volition-Guarded Multiagent Atomic Transactions: Describing People and their Machines

Andy Lewis-Pye, Ehud Shapiro

Volitional multiagent atomic transactions let formal models capture both machines and the people who operate them.

arxiv:2604.25596 v2 · 2026-04-28 · cs.DC · cs.HC · cs.MA · cs.SI

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C1strongest claim

volitional multiagent atomic transactions -- executed atomically by machines and guarded by their people's volitions -- as a novel mathematical foundation for specifying systems consisting of people operating machines.

C2weakest assumption

That human volitions can be treated as stable, discrete states that reliably guard machine preconditions without introducing unmodeled inconsistencies in real deployments.

C3one line summary

Volitional multiagent atomic transactions model systems of people and machines by requiring both machine preconditions and human willingness for atomic actions, enabling safety and liveness analysis for grassroots platforms.

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First computed	2026-07-07T02:17:25.622947Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
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df5af17fb2e91455940783333d85c240e07ca1f344451f67c56ebdd7b7a57319

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arxiv: 2604.25596 · arxiv_version: 2604.25596v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2604.25596 · pith_short_12: 35NPC75S5EKF · pith_short_16: 35NPC75S5EKFLFAH · pith_short_8: 35NPC75S

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