Model checking a cache coherence protocol of a Java DSM implementation

Journal of Logic and Algebraic Programming

Volumn 71, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 1-43

  Pang, Jun ^a   Fokkink, Wan ^b,c   Hofman, Rutger ^b   Veldema, Ronald ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c CWI   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

CRL; Cache coherence protocols; Formal specification; Java memory model; Model checking

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

ΜCRL; CACHE COHERENCE PROTOCOLS; DISTRIBUTED SHARED MEMORY; FORMAL SPECIFICATION; JAVA MEMORY MODEL; MODEL CHECKING;

DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT;

EID: 33845289745     PISSN: 15678326     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jlap.2006.08.007     Document Type: Article

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