An assertion-based proof system for multithreaded Java

Theoretical Computer Science

Volumn 331, Issue 2-3, 2005, Pages 251-290

  Ábrahám, Erika ^a,c   De Boer, Frank S ^b   De Roever, Willem Paul ^a   Steffen, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^b CWI   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Hoare logic; Java; Monitors; Multithreading; Soundness and relative completeness; Verification

Indexed keywords

HOARE-LOGIC; MONITORS; MULTITHREADING; SOUNDNESS AND RELATIVE COMPLETENESS; VERIFICATION;

ALGORITHMS; COMMUNICATION; COMPUTER MONITORS; FORMAL LOGIC; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); SYNCHRONIZATION; THEOREM PROVING;

JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE;

EID: 13444292254     PISSN: 03043975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tcs.2004.09.019     Document Type: Conference Paper

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