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Enabling Modular Verification with Abstract Interference Specifications for a Concurrent Queue

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Verified Software. Theories, Tools, and Experiments (VSTTE 2016)

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When concurrent threads of execution do not modify shared data, their parallel execution is trivially equivalent to their sequential execution. For many imperative programming languages, however, the modular verification of this independence is often frustrated by (i) the possibility of aliasing between variables mentioned in different threads, and (ii) the lack of abstraction in the description of read/write effects of operations on shared data structures. We describe a specification and verification framework in which abstract specifications of functional behavior are augmented with abstract interference effects that permit verification of client code with concurrent calls to operations of a data abstraction. To illustrate the approach, we present a classic concurrent data abstraction: the bounded queue. Three different implementations are described, each with different degrees of entanglement and hence different degrees of possible synchronization-free concurrency.

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This research is funded in part by NSF grants CCF-1161916 and DUE-1022941. Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed here are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the NSF.

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    Alan Weide & Paolo A. G. Sivilotti

  2. Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina, 29634, USA

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Weide, A., Sivilotti, P.A.G., Sitaraman, M. (2016). Enabling Modular Verification with Abstract Interference Specifications for a Concurrent Queue. In: Blazy, S., Chechik, M. (eds) Verified Software. Theories, Tools, and Experiments. VSTTE 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9971. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48869-1_9

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