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Modeling Concurrency in Dafny

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This article gives a tutorial on how the Dafny language and verifier can be used to model a concurrent system. The running example is a simple ticket system for mutual exclusion. Both safety and, under the assumption of a fair scheduler, liveness are verified.

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Acknowledgments

Andreas Podelski brought up the problem of this ticket system at meeting 54 (Saint Petersburg, Russia, June 2013) of the IFIP Working Group 2.3, where several formalizations were subsequently presented. Xinhaoyuan on github proposed the prefix allowance of conjunctions and disjunctions in Dafny. I thank Shuo Chen for comments on an earlier draft of this article.

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Leino, K.R.M. (2018). Modeling Concurrency in Dafny. In: Bowen, J., Liu, Z., Zhang, Z. (eds) Engineering Trustworthy Software Systems. SETSS 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11174. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02928-9_4

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