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Linearizability is the commonly accepted notion of correctness for concurrent data structures. It requires that any execution of the data structure is justified by a linearization --- a linear order on operations satisfying the data…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2017-07-07 Artem Khyzha , Mike Dodds , Alexey Gotsman , Matthew Parkinson

Linearizability is a commonly accepted notion of correctness for libraries of concurrent algorithms, and recent years have seen a number of proposals of program logics for proving it. Although these logics differ in technical details, they…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2016-09-06 Artem Khyzha , Alexey Gotsman , Matthew Parkinson

Linearizability is the standard correctness criterion concurrent data structures such as stacks and queues. It allows to establish observational refinement between a concurrent implementation and an atomic reference implementation.Proving…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2017-02-10 Ahmed Bouajjani , Michael Emmi , Constantin Enea , Suha Orhun Mutluergil

Linearisability is a central notion for verifying concurrent libraries: a given library is proven safe if its operational history can be rearranged into a new sequential one which, in addition, satisfies a given specification.…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2016-10-26 Andrzej S. Murawski , Nikos Tzevelekos

Proving the linearizability of highly concurrent data structures, such as those using optimistic concurrency control, is a challenging task. The main difficulty is in reasoning about the view of the memory obtained by the threads, because…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-08-07 Yotam M. Y. Feldman , Constantin Enea , Adam Morrison , Noam Rinetzky , Sharon Shoham

Proving linearizability of concurrent data structures is crucial for ensuring their correctness, but is challenging especially for implementations that employ sophisticated synchronization techniques. In this paper, we propose a new proof…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Tangliu Wen

Linearizability of concurrent data structures is usually proved by monolithic simulation arguments relying on the identification of the so-called linearization points. Regrettably, such proofs, whether manual or automatic, are often…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Soham Chakraborty , Thomas A. Henzinger , Ali Sezgin , Viktor Vafeiadis

This paper presents a {theoretical study} of the problem of verifying linearizability at runtime, where one seeks for a concurrent algorithm for verifying that the current execution of a given concurrent shared object implementation is…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Armando Castañeda , Gilde Valeria Rodríguez

Linearizability is a commonly accepted consistency condition for concurrent objects. Filipovi\'{c} et al. show that linearizability is equivalent to observational refinement. However, linearizability does not permit concurrent objects to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-06-22 Tangliu Wen

Lipton's reduction theory provides an intuitive and simple way for deducing the non-interference properties of concurrent programs, but it is difficult to directly apply the technique to verify linearizability of sophisticated fine-grained…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2018-08-31 Tangliu Wen

Linearizability is the de facto consistency condition for concurrent objects, widely used in theory and practice. Loosely speaking, linearizability classifies concurrent executions as correct if operations on shared objects appear to take…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-07-30 Gal Sela , Maurice Herlihy , Erez Petrank

Linearizability is a well-established consistency and correctness criterion for concurrent data types. An important feature of linearizability is Herlihy and Wing's locality principle, which says that a concurrent system is linearizable if…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-04-02 Alex Horn , Daniel Kroening

Linearisability has become the standard correctness criterion for concurrent data structures, ensuring that every history of invocations and responses of concurrent operations has a matching sequential history. Existing proofs of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-07-29 Brijesh Dongol , John Derrick

Efficient implementations of concurrent objects such as atomic collections are essential to modern computing. Programming such objects is error prone: in minimizing the synchronization overhead between concurrent object invocations, one…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2017-07-04 Ahmed Bouajjani , Constantin Enea , Chao Wang

Linearizability, the de facto correctness condition for concurrent data structure implementations, despite its intuitive appeal is known to lead to poor scalability. This disadvantage has led researchers to design scalable data structures…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-06-17 Ali Sezgin

Linearizability is a standard correctness criterion for concurrent algorithms, typically proved by establishing the algorithms' linearization points. However, relying on linearization points leads to proofs that are…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Jesús Domínguez , Aleksandar Nanevski

In the past decade, many techniques have been developed to prove linearizability, the gold standard of correctness for concurrent data structures. Intuitively, linearizability requires that every operation on a concurrent data structure…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Zachary Kent , Ugur Y. Yavuz , Siddhartha Jayanti , Stephanie Balzer , Guy Blelloch

Arguments about correctness of a concurrent data structure are typically carried out by using the notion of linearizability and specifying the linearization points of the data structure's procedures. Such arguments are often cumbersome as…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-01-19 Germán Andrés Delbianco , Ilya Sergey , Aleksandar Nanevski , Anindya Banerjee

Linearizability has become the de facto correctness specification for implementations of concurrent data structures. While formally verifying such implementations remains challenging, linearizability monitoring has emerged as a promising…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Lee Zheng Han , Umang Mathur

Linearizability is a well-known correctness property for concurrent and distributed systems. In the past, it was also used to prove the design and implementation of replicated state-machines correct. State-machine replication (SMR) is a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Franz J. Hauck , Alexander Heß
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