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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

Communication is an essential element of modern software, yet programming and analysing communicating systems are difficult tasks. A reason for this difficulty is the lack of compositional mechanisms that preserve relevant communication…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-08-10 Franco Barbanera , Ivan Lanese , Emilio Tuosto

Choreographic Programming is a paradigm for the development of concurrent software, where deadlocks are prevented syntactically. However, choreography languages are typically synchronous, whereas many real-world systems have asynchronous…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2017-12-01 Luís Cruz-Filipe , Fabrizio Montesi

Linearizability is the strongest correctness property for both shared memory and message passing systems. One of its useful features is the compositionality: a history (execution) is linearizable if and only if each object (component)…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-02-09 Haoxiang Lin

Atomic registers are certainly the most basic objects of computing science. Their implementation on top of an n-process asynchronous message-passing system has received a lot of attention. It has been shown that t \textless{} n/2 (where t…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-02-09 Achour Mostéfaoui , Michel Raynal

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

Simulating a shared register can mask the intricacies of designing algorithms for asynchronous message-passing systems subject to crash failures, since it allows them to run algorithms designed for the simpler shared-memory model. Typically…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-08-11 Hagit Attiya , Hyun Chul Chung , Faith Ellen , Saptaparni Kumar , Jennifer L. Welch

This paper studies the relation between agreement and strongly linearizable implementations of various objects. This leads to new results about implementations of concurrent objects from various primitives including window registers and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Hagit Attiya , Armando Castañeda , Constantin Enea

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

Entry in: Encyclopedia of Algorithms, Ming-Yang Kao, Ed., Springer, To appear. Synonyms: Wait-free registers, wait-free shared variables, asynchronous communication hardware. Problem Definition: Consider a system of asynchronous processes…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Paul M. B. Vitanyi

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 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

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…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-02-03 Brijesh Dongol , John Derrick

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

Implementing a component-based system in a distributed way so that it ensures some global constraints is a challenging problem. We consider here abstract specifications consisting of a composition of components and a controller given in the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2010-07-30 Imene Ben-Hafaiedh , Susanne Graf , Hammadi Khairallah

A key functionality of emerging connected autonomous systems such as smart cities, smart transportation systems, and the industrial Internet-of-Things, is the ability to process and learn from data collected at different physical locations.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Konstantinos Gatsis

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

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

In the interleaving model of concurrency, where events are totally ordered, linearizability is compositional: the composition of two linearizable objects is guaranteed to be linearizable. However, linearizability is not compositional when…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-02-07 Simon Doherty , John Derrick , Brijesh Dongol , Heike Wehrheim