A wad-free implementation of a data object in shared memory is one that guarantees that any process can complete any operation in a finite number of steps, regardless of the execu...
Abstract. The Ravenscar Profile is a restricted subset of the Ada tasking model, designed to meet the requirements of producing analysable and deterministic code. A central featur...
Abstract. An important application of unique object references is safe and efficient message passing in concurrent object-oriented programming. However, to prevent the ill effects...
Model checking requires a specification of the target system’s desirable properties, some of which are temporal. Formulating a property of the system based on either its abstrac...
Software model checkers are being used mostly to discover specific types of errors in the code, since exhaustive verification of complex programs is not possible due to state explo...