Java exception checks are designed to ensure that any faulting instruction causing a hardware exception does not terminate the program abnormally. These checks, however, impose so...
Only a handful of fundamental mechanisms for synchronizing the access of concurrent threads to shared memory are widely implemented and used. These include locks, condition variab...
Abstract. We describe how the PVS verification system has been used to verify a safety property of a garbage collection algorithm, originally suggested by Ben-Ari. The safety prope...
Abstract. In a trace-based world, the modular speci cation, veri cation, and control of live systems require each module to be receptive that is, each module must be able to meet i...
: Events are occurrence instances of actions. The thesis of this paper is that the use of “actions”, instead of events, greatly simplifies the problem of concurrent debugging....