While removing software bugs consumes vast amounts of human time, hardware support for debugging in modern computers remains rudimentary. Fortunately, we show that mechanisms for ...
A memory model for a shared memory, multiprocessor commonly and often implicitly assumed by programmers is that of sequential consistency. This model guarantees that all memory ac...
This paper describes the methods used in Empire, a tool to detect concurrency-related bugs, namely atomic-set serializability violations in Java programs. The correctness criterion...
Nicholas Kidd, Thomas W. Reps, Julian Dolby, Manda...
Reasoning about object-oriented programs is hard, due to , dynamic binding and the need for data abstraction and framing. Reasoning about concurrent object-oriented programs is eve...
Developing parallel software using current tools can be challenging. Even experts find it difficult to reason about the use of locks and often accidentally introduce race condit...
James Christopher Jenista, Yong Hun Eom, Brian Dem...