Name
Title | ||
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An integrated specification and verification technique for highly concurrent data structures |
Abstract | ||
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We present a technique for automatically verifying safety properties of concurrent programs, in particular programs which rely on subtle dependencies of local states of different threads, such as lock-free implementations of stacks and queues in an environment without garbage collection. Our technique addresses the joint challenges of infinite-state specifications, an unbounded number of threads, and an unbounded heap managed by explicit memory allocation. Our technique builds on the automata-theoretic approach to model checking, in which a specification is given by an automaton that observes the execution of a program and accepts executions that violate the intended specification. We extend this approach by allowing specifications to be given by a class of infinite-state automata. We show how such automata can be used to specify queues, stacks, and other data structures, by extending a data-independence argument. For verification, we develop a shape analysis, which tracks correlations between pairs of threads, and a novel abstraction to make the analysis practical. We have implemented our method and used it to verify programs, some of which have not been verified by any other automatic method before. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2013 | 10.1007/978-3-642-36742-7_23 | TACAS |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
unbounded heap,infinite-state automaton,concurrent program,concurrent data structure,shape analysis,intended specification,infinite-state specification,automatic method,automata-theoretic approach,integrated specification,data structure,unbounded number,verification technique,computer science | Data structure,Model checking,Programming language,Computer science,Automaton,Theoretical computer science,Heap (data structure),Implementation,Thread (computing),Garbage collection,Concurrent data structure | Conference |
Volume | ISSN | Citations |
7795 | 0302-9743 | 18 |
PageRank | References | Authors |
0.63 | 30 | 5 |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Parosh Aziz Abdulla | 1 | 2010 | 122.22 |
| Frédéric Haziza | 2 | 109 | 6.26 |
| Lukáš Holík | 3 | 157 | 6.67 |
| bengt jonsson | 4 | 3637 | 263.46 |
| Ahmed Rezine | 5 | 378 | 23.10 |