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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…
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…
Linearizability has become the key correctness criterion for concurrent data structures, ensuring that histories of the concurrent object under consideration are consistent, where consistency is judged with respect to a sequential history…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
In this paper, we systematically investigate the connection between linearizable objects and forward simulation. We prove that the sets of linearizable objects satisfying wait-freedom (resp., lock-freedom or obstruction-freedom) form a…
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…
Linearizability has been the long standing gold standard for consistency in concurrent data structures. However, proofs of linearizability can be long and intricate, hard to produce, and extremely time consuming even to verify. In this…
Linearizability is a standard correctness criterion for concurrent algorithms, typically proved by establishing the algorithms' linearization points (LP). However, LPs often hinder abstraction, and for some algorithms such as the…
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…
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…
Linearisability has become the standard safety criterion for concurrent data structures ensuring that the effect of a concrete operation takes place after the execution some atomic statement (often referred to as the linearisation point).…
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…
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…
Efficient implementations of atomic objects such as concurrent stacks and queues are especially susceptible to programming errors, and necessitate automatic verification. Unfortunately their correctness criteria - linearizability with…
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…
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…