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International Workshop on Formal Techniques for Safety-Critical Systems

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Specification and Verification of Synchronization with Condition Variables

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In this paper we propose a technique to specify and verify the correct synchronization of concurrent programs with condition variables.

Marieke Huisman — Supported by ERC grant 258405 for the VerCors project.

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    The choice of formalism has been mainly based on the simplicity of CPNs as a general model of concurrency, rather than on the existing support for efficient model checking. For the latter, model checking tools exploiting parametricity or symmetries in the models may prove more efficient in practice.

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  1. KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

    Pedro de Carvalho Gomes & Dilian Gurov

  2. University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands

    Marieke Huisman

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de Carvalho Gomes, P., Gurov, D., Huisman, M. (2017). Specification and Verification of Synchronization with Condition Variables. In: Artho, C., Ölveczky, P. (eds) Formal Techniques for Safety-Critical Systems. FTSCS 2016. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 694. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-53946-1_1

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