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Deadlock Detection for Actor-Based Coroutines

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The actor-based language studied in this paper features asynchronous method calls and supports coroutines which allow for the cooperative scheduling of the method invocations belonging to an actor. We model the local behavior of an actor as a well-structured transition system by means of predicate abstraction and derive the decidability of the occurrence of deadlocks caused by the coroutine mode of method execution.

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  1. Centrum Wiskunde en Informatica, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Keyvan Azadbakht, Frank S. de Boer & Erik de Vink

  2. Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands

    Keyvan Azadbakht

  3. Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

    Erik de Vink

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Azadbakht, K., de Boer, F.S., de Vink, E. (2018). Deadlock Detection for Actor-Based Coroutines. In: Havelund, K., Peleska, J., Roscoe, B., de Vink, E. (eds) Formal Methods. FM 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10951. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95582-7_3

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