Proving Liveness of Parameterized Programs

Correctness of multi-threaded programs typically requires that they satisfy liveness properties. For example, a program may require that no thread is starved of a shared resource, or that all threads eventually agree on a single value. This paper presents a method for proving that such liveness prop...

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Published in:Proceedings of the 31st Annual ACM/IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science pp. 185 - 196
Main Authors: Farzan, Azadeh, Kincaid, Zachary, Podelski, Andreas
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Published: New York, NY, USA ACM 05.07.2016
Series:ACM Conferences
Subjects:
General and reference
General and reference > Cross-computing tools and techniques
General and reference > Cross-computing tools and techniques > Verification
Software and its engineering
Software and its engineering > Software creation and management
Software and its engineering > Software creation and management > Software development process management
Software and its engineering > Software creation and management > Software verification and validation
Software and its engineering > Software creation and management > Software verification and validation > Formal software verification
Software and its engineering > Software organization and properties
Software and its engineering > Software organization and properties > Software functional properties
Software and its engineering > Software organization and properties > Software functional properties > Formal methods
Software and its engineering > Software organization and properties > Software functional properties > Formal methods > Software verification
Theory of computation
Theory of computation > Logic
Theory of computation > Logic > Proof theory
Theory of computation > Semantics and reasoning
Theory of computation > Semantics and reasoning > Program reasoning
Theory of computation > Semantics and reasoning > Program reasoning > Program verification
ISBN:9781450343916, 1450343910
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Summary:Correctness of multi-threaded programs typically requires that they satisfy liveness properties. For example, a program may require that no thread is starved of a shared resource, or that all threads eventually agree on a single value. This paper presents a method for proving that such liveness properties hold. Two particular challenges which are addressed in this work are that (1) the correctness argument may rely on global behaviour of the system (e.g., the correctness argument may require that all threads collectively progress towards "the good thing" rather than one thread progressing while the others do not interfere), and (2) such programs are often designed to be executed by any number of threads, and the desired liveness properties must hold no matter how many threads are active in the system.
ISBN:9781450343916
1450343910
DOI:10.1145/2933575.2935310