Lambda the Ultimate

Hi,

I'm trying to understand the stutter invariance and its application in the verification distributed systems (specified in the the SPIN model checker, primer and reference manual).

I couldn't quite understand the concept. Could anyone help me to understand it ?

Thanks in advance,
Mohan...

I am interested in constructing higher-order functions (e.g. map/filter/fold) from stack-based byte-code generated from non-functional languages (like Java), where most things are expressed in for-loops. I am wondering what keywords would lead me to related work and if anyone knows some good papers to start with?