Formal Construction of a Non-blocking Concurrent Queue Algorithm
Jean-Raymond Abrial (ETH Zürich, Switzerland)
Dominique Cansell (Universite de Metz & LORIA, France)
Abstract: This paper contains a completely formal (and mechanically proved) development of some algorithms dealing with a linked list supposed to be shared by various processes. These algorithms are executed in a highly concurrent fashion by an unknown number of such independent processes. These algorithms have been first presented in [MS96] by M.M. Michael and M.L. Scott. Two other developments of the same algorithms have been proposed recently in [YS03] (using the 3VMC Model Checker developed by E. Yahav) and in [DGLM04] (using I/O Automata and PVS).
Keywords: atomicity, concurrency, formal proof, prover, refinement
Categories: D.1.3
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