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 thus demonstrating the viability of our parametric approach.},
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+@PhdThesis{Xiong2020Parametric,
+author    = {Shale Xiong},
+title     = {Parametric Operational Semantics for Consistency Models},
+school    = {Imperial College London},
+year      = {2020},
+type      = {phdthesis},
+project = {concurrency},
+abstract = {The cloud has become popular for its low cost, high availability and 
+high fault-tolerance-queue or de-queue, for example Amazon Web Service (AWS) and 
+Google Cloud Platform (GCP. Those cloud infrastructures provide fixed interface, 
+to hide the complex internal implementation that consists of hundreds of thousands 
+of machines globally that work together as a whole system, known as a distributed 
+system. Clients of those systems only need to work with the abstract interfaces. 
+Transactions are the de facto interfaces in modern distributed databases. 
+Because of the CAP theorem, a distributed system must sacrifice strong consistency 
+to achieve high availability and high fault-tolerance. Engineers and researchers 
+have proposed many reference implementations in specific setting for various weak 
+consistency models. However, there have been little work on formalising the interfaces. 
+We introduce an interleaving operational semantics for describing such interfaces, 
+with the focus on the client-observable behaviour of atomic transactions on 
+distributed key-value stores. Our semantics builds on abstract states comprising 
+centralised, global key-value stores and partial client views. We provide 
+operational definitions of consistency models for our key-value stores which 
+are shown to be equivalent to the well-known declarative definitions of consistency 
+models for execution graphs. We explore two immediate applications of our semantics: 
+specific protocols of databases for a specific consistency can be verified in 
+our centralised semantics; programs can be directly shown to have invariant 
+properties such as robustness results against a weak consistency model.},
+}
+
 @InProceedings{Xiong2020Data,
 author    = {Shale Xiong and
             Andrea Cerone and