The automated inference of quantified invariants is considered one of the next challenges in software verification. The question of the right precision-efficiency tradeoff for the...
Abstract. We design a deadlock-free semantics for a concurrent, functional and imperative programming language where locks are implicitly and univocally associated with pointers. T...
We give an elementary semantics to an effect system, tracking read and write effects by using relations over a standard extensional semantics for the original language. The seman...
Nick Benton, Andrew Kennedy, Martin Hofmann, Lenna...
We are concerned with programs composed of cooperative threads whose execution proceeds in synchronous rounds called instants. We develop static analysis methods to guarantee that...
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