Formal verification of a practical lock-free queue algorithm

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 3235, Issue , 2004, Pages 97-114

  Doherty, Simon ^a   Groves, Lindsay ^a   Luchangco, Victor ^b   Moir, Mark ^a  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

^b SUN MICROSYSTEMS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; LOCKS (FASTENERS); QUEUEING THEORY;

AUTOMATED VERIFICATION; BACKWARD SIMULATIONS; FIFO QUEUE; FORWARD SIMULATION; LOCK-FREE; PROOF SYSTEM; QUEUE ALGORITHMS; THEOREM PROVERS;

FORMAL VERIFICATION;

EID: 35048816017     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-30232-2_7     Document Type: Article

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