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Linearizability is the gold standard among algorithm designers for deducing the correctness of a distributed algorithm using implemented shared objects from the correctness of the corresponding algorithm using atomic versions of the same…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2011-09-21 Wojciech Golab , Lisa Higham , Philipp Woelfel

Runtime verification is the process of verifying critical behavioral properties in big complex systems, where formal verification is not possible due to state space explosion. There have been several attempts to design efficient algorithms…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-04-07 M. Ali Dorosty , Fathiyeh Faghih , Ehsan Khamespanah

Linearizability is a commonly accepted notion of correctness for libraries of concurrent algorithms. Unfortunately, it assumes a complete isolation between a library and its client, with interactions limited to passing values of a given…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Alexey Gotsman , Hongseok Yang

While linearizability is a fundamental correctness condition for distributed systems, ensuring the linearizability of implementations can be quite complex. An essential aspect of linearizable implementations of concurrent objects is the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Raïssa Nataf , Yoram Moses

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…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Jesús Domínguez , Aleksandar Nanevski

It has been observed that linearizability, the prevalent consistency condition for implementing concurrent objects, does not preserve some probability distributions. A stronger condition, called strong linearizability has been proposed, but…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-05-30 Hagit Attiya , Constantin Enea

Runtime verification encompasses several lightweight techniques for checking whether a system's current execution satisfies a given specification. We focus on runtime verification for Linear Temporal Logic (LTL). Previous work describes…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Javier Esparza , Vincent Fischer

We study the linearizability monitoring problem, which asks whether a given concurrent history of a data structure is equivalent to some sequential execution of the same data structure. In general, this problem is $\textsf{NP}$-hard, even…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Lee Zheng Han , Umang Mathur

Synchronous programming is a paradigm of choice for the design of safety-critical reactive systems. Runtime enforcement is a technique to ensure that the output of a black-box system satisfies some desired properties. This paper deals with…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2016-12-16 Srinivas Pinisetty , Partha S Roop , Steven Smyth , Stavros Tripakis , Reinhard von Hanxleden

Runtime Verification deals with the question of whether a run of a system adheres to its specification. This paper studies runtime verification in the presence of partial knowledge about the observed run, particularly where input values may…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-07-13 Hannes Kallwies , Martin Leucker , Cesar Sanchez

Runtime Verification is a lightweight formal verification technique. It is used to verify at runtime whether the system under analysis behaves as expected. The expected behaviour is usually formally specified by means of properties, which…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Angelo Ferrando , Rafael C. Cardoso

It has been proved that to implement a linearizable shared memory in synchronous message-passing systems it is necessary to wait for a time proportional to the uncertainty in the latency of the network for both read and write operations,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-08-01 Matthieu Perrin , Matoula Petrolia , Achour Mostefaoui , Claude Jard

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).…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2012-12-21 Brijesh Dongol , John Derrick

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

Causal consistency is one of the most adopted consistency criteria for distributed implementations of data structures. It ensures that operations are executed at all sites according to their causal precedence. We address the issue of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-11-16 Ahmed Bouajjani , Constantin Enea , Rachid Guerraoui , Jad Hamza

Runtime verification is an effective automated method for specification-based offline testing and analysis as well as online monitoring of complex systems. The specification language is often a variant of regular expressions or a popular…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-11-11 Ramy Medhat , Yogi Joshi , Borzoo Bonakdarpour , Sebastian Fischmeister

Verification of large and complicated concurrent programs is an important issue in the software world. Stateless model checking is an appropriate method for systematically and automatically testing of large programs, which has proved its…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2016-03-14 Elaheh Ghassabani , Mohammad Abdollahi Azgomi

Implementing correct distributed systems is an error-prone task. Runtime Verification (RV) offers a lightweight formal method to improve reliability by monitoring system executions against correctness properties. However, applying RV in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Armando Castañeda , Gilde Valeria Rodríguez

While reachability analysis is one of the most promising approaches for formal verification of dynamic systems, a major disadvantage preventing a more widespread application is the requirement to manually tune algorithm parameters such as…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Niklas Kochdumper , Stanley Bak

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