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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

The semantics of concurrent data structures is usually given by a sequential specification and a consistency condition. Linearizability is the most popular consistency condition due to its simplicity and general applicability. Nevertheless,…

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

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

We define observability and detectability for linear switching systems as the possibility of reconstructing and respectively of asymptotically reconstructing the hybrid state of the system from the knowledge of the output for a suitable…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2008-02-28 Elena De Santis , Maria Domenica Di Benedetto , Giordano Pola

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

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 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

There is an increasing body of literature proposing new and efficient persistent versions of concurrent data structures ensuring that a consistent state can be recovered after a power failure or a crash. Their correctness is typically…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Emanuele D'Osualdo , Azalea Raad , Viktor Vafeiadis

Transactional memory is a mechanism that manages thread synchronisation on behalf of a programmer so that blocks of code execute with an illusion of atomicity. The main safety criterion for transactional memory is opacity, which defines…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-10-05 Alasdair Armstrong , Brijesh Dongol , Simon Doherty

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

Distinguishability takes a crucial rule in studying observability of hybrid system such as switched system. Recently, for two linear systems, Lou and Si gave a condition not only necessary but also sufficient to the distinguishability of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-02-21 Hongwei Lou

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…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Prasad Jayanti , Siddhartha Jayanti , Ugur Y. Yavuz , Lizzie Hernandez

Linearizability is the gold standard of correctness conditions for shared memory algorithms, and historically has been considered the practical equivalent of atomicity. However, it has been shown [1] that replacing atomic objects with…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-08-29 Sean Ovens , Philipp Woelfel

We present and verify template algorithms for lock-free concurrent search structures that cover a broad range of existing implementations based on lists and skiplists. Our linearizability proofs are fully mechanized in the concurrent…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Nisarg Patel , Dennis Shasha , Thomas Wies

This paper presents a methodology for temporal logic verification of discrete-time stochastic systems. Our goal is to find a lower bound on the probability that a complex temporal property is satisfied by finite traces of the system.…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-11-22 Pushpak Jagtap , Sadegh Soudjani , Majid Zamani

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

For a nonlinear ordinary differential equation solved with respect to the highest order derivative and rational in the other derivatives and in the independent variable, we devise two algorithms to check if the equation can be reduced to a…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2017-04-28 Dmitry Lyakhov , Vladimir Gerdt , Dominik Michels

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

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