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Monitoring distributed systems to ensure their correctness is a challenging and expensive but essential problem. It is challenging because while execution of a distributed system creates a partial order among events, the monitor will…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Vidhya Tekken Valapil , Sandeep Kulkarni , Eric Torng , Gabe Appleton

Multithreaded programs generally leverage efficient and thread-safe concurrent objects like sets, key-value maps, and queues. While some concurrent-object operations are designed to behave atomically, each witnessing the atomic effects of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-11-06 Siddharth Krishna , Michael Emmi , Constantin Enea , Dejan Jovanovic

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

Verification of concurrent data structures is one of the most challenging tasks in software verification. The topic has received considerable attention over the course of the last decade. Nevertheless, human-driven techniques remain…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2018-11-12 Roland Meyer , Sebastian Wolff

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…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Chao Wang , Ruijia Li , Yang Zhou , Peng Wu , Yi Lv , Jianwei Liao , Jim Woodcock , Zhiming Liu

Linearizability is a widely accepted notion of correctness for concurrent objects. Recent research has investigated redefining linearizability for particular hardware weak memory models, in particular for TSO. In this paper, we provide an…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-07-03 Graeme Smith , Kirsten Winter , Robert J. Colvin

Network performance problems are notoriously difficult to diagnose. Prior profiling systems collect performance statistics by keeping information about each network flow, but maintaining per-flow state is not scalable on…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Zaoxing Liu , Samson Zhou , Ori Rottenstreich , Vladimir Braverman , Jennifer Rexford

Linearizable datastores are desirable because they provide users with the illusion that the datastore is run on a single machine that performs client operations one at a time. To reduce the performance cost of providing this illusion, many…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Myles Thiessen , Aleksey Panas , Guy Khazma , Eyal de Lara

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

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

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…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-05-26 Ahmed Bouajjani , Michael Emmi , Constantin Enea , Jad Hamza

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

Networks are difficult to configure correctly, and tricky to debug. These problems are accentuated by temporal and stateful behavior. Static verification, while useful, is ineffectual for detecting behavioral deviations induced by hardware…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-07-18 Tim Nelson , Nicholas DeMarinis , Timothy Adam Hoff , Rodrigo Fonseca , Shriram Krishnamurthi

The runtime analysis of decentralised software requires instrumentation methods that are scalable, but also minimally invasive. This paper presents a new algorithm that instruments choreographed outline monitors. Our instrumentation…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Luca Aceto , Duncan Paul Attard , Adrian Francalanza , Anna Ingólfsdóttir

Concurrent systems are notoriously difficult to validate: subtle bugs may only manifest under rare thread interleavings, and existing tools often require intrusive instrumentation or unrealistic execution models. We present OmniLink, a new…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Finn Hackett , Evan Wrench , Peter Macko , A. Jesse Jiryu Davis , Yuanhao Wei , Ivan Beschastnikh

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

Multi-threaded programs are challenging to write. Developers often need to reason about a prohibitively large number of thread interleavings to reason about the behavior of software. A non-interference property like atomicity can reduce…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Umang Mathur , Mahesh Viswanathan

Because strongly-linearizable objects provide stronger guarantees than linearizability, they serve as valuable building blocks for the design of concurrent data structures. Yet, many objects that have linearizable implementations from base…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Faith Ellen , Gal Sela

Observability into the decision making of modern AI systems may be required to safely deploy increasingly capable agents. Monitoring the chain-of-thought (CoT) of today's reasoning models has proven effective for detecting misbehavior.…

We prove that strong structural controllability of a pair of structural matrices $(\mathcal{A},\mathcal{B})$ can be verified in time linear in $n + r + \nu$, where $\mathcal{A}$ is square, $n$ and $r$ denote the number of columns of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-11-18 Alexander Weber , Gunther Reissig , Ferdinand Svaricek