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Software Transactional Memory
, 1995
"... As we learn from the literature, flexibility in choosing synchronization operations greatly simplifies the task of designing highly concurrent programs. Unfortunately, existing hardware is inflexible and is at best on the level of a Load Linked/Store Conditional operation on a single word. Building ..."
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As we learn from the literature, flexibility in choosing synchronization operations greatly simplifies the task of designing highly concurrent programs. Unfortunately, existing hardware is inflexible and is at best on the level of a Load Linked/Store Conditional operation on a single word. Building on the hardware based transactional synchronization methodology of Herlihy and Moss, we offer software transactional memory (STM), a novel software method for supporting flexible transactional programming of synchronization operations. STM is non-blocking, and can be implemented on existing machines using only a Load Linked/Store Conditional operation. We use STM to provide a general highly concurrent method for translating sequential object implementations to lock-free ones based on implementing a k-word compare&swap STM-transaction. Empirical evidence collected on simulated multiprocessor architectures shows that the our method always outperforms all the lock-free translation methods in ...
Composing Specifications
- ACM TRANSACTIONS ON PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES AND SYSTEMS
, 1993
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Interface Automata
- Proceedings of the Ninth Annual Symposium on Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE), ACM
, 2001
"... Conventional type systems specify interfaces in terms of values and domains. ..."
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Conventional type systems specify interfaces in terms of values and domains.
Probabilistic Simulations for Probabilistic Processes
, 1994
"... Several probabilistic simulation relations for probabilistic systems are defined and evaluated according to two criteria: compositionality and preservation of "interesting" properties. Here, the interesting properties of a system are identified with those that are expressible in an untimed ..."
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Several probabilistic simulation relations for probabilistic systems are defined and evaluated according to two criteria: compositionality and preservation of "interesting" properties. Here, the interesting properties of a system are identified with those that are expressible in an untimed version of the Timed Probabilistic concurrent Computation Tree Logic (TPCTL) of Hansson. The definitions are made, and the evaluations carried out, in terms of a general labeled transition system model for concurrent probabilistic computation. The results cover weak simulations, which abstract from internal computation, as well as strong simulations, which do not.
Computing Simulations on Finite and Infinite Graphs
, 1996
"... . We present algorithms for computing similarity relations of labeled graphs. Similarity relations have applications for the refinement and verification of reactive systems. For finite graphs, we present an O(mn) algorithm for computing the similarity relation of a graph with n vertices and m edges ..."
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. We present algorithms for computing similarity relations of labeled graphs. Similarity relations have applications for the refinement and verification of reactive systems. For finite graphs, we present an O(mn) algorithm for computing the similarity relation of a graph with n vertices and m edges (assuming m n). For effectively presented infinite graphs, we present a symbolic similarity-checking procedure that terminates if a finite similarity relation exists. We show that 2D rectangular automata, which model discrete reactive systems with continuous environments, define effectively presented infinite graphs with finite similarity relations. It follows that the refinement problem and the 8CTL model-checking problem are decidable for 2D rectangular automata. 1 Introduction A labeled graph G = (V; E;A; hh\Deltaii) consist of a (possibly infinite) set V of vertices, a set E ` V 2 of edges, a set A of labels, and a function hh\Deltaii : V ! A that maps each vertex v to a label hh...
Conversation specification: a new approach to design and analysis of e-service composition
- In World Wide Web Conference
, 2003
"... This paper introduces a framework for modeling and specifying the global behavior of e-service compositions. Under this framework, peers (individual e-services) communicate through asynchronous messages and each peer maintains a queue for incoming messages. A global “watcher ” keeps track of message ..."
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This paper introduces a framework for modeling and specifying the global behavior of e-service compositions. Under this framework, peers (individual e-services) communicate through asynchronous messages and each peer maintains a queue for incoming messages. A global “watcher ” keeps track of messages as they occur. We propose and study a central notion of a “conversation”, which is a sequence of (classes of) messages observed by the watcher. We consider the case where the peers are represented by Mealy machines (finite state machines with input and output). The sets of conversations exhibit unexpected behaviors. For example, there exists a composite e-service based on Mealy peers whose set of conversations is not context free (and not regular). (The set of conversations is always context sensitive.) One cause for this is the queuing of messages; we introduce an operator “prepone ” that simulates queue
