Correctness-preserving derivation of concurrent garbage collection algorithms

Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI)

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 341-353

  Vechev, Martin T ^a   Yahav, Eran ^b   Bacon, David F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b IBM RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Concurrent algorithms; Concurrent garbage collection; Synthesis; Verification

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED SYNTHESIS; CONCURRENT ALGORITHMS; CONCURRENT GARBAGE COLLECTION; VERIFICATION;

ABSTRACTING; ALGORITHMS; CORRELATION METHODS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING;

CONCURRENT ENGINEERING;

EID: 33746093512     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1133255.1134022     Document Type: Conference Paper

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