KISS: Keep it simple and sequential

ACM SIGPLAN Notices

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 14-24

  Qadeer, Shaz ^a   Wu, Dinghao ^b  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

^b Princeton University   (United States)

Author keywords

Assertion checking; Concurrent software; Model checking; Program analysis; Race detection

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; ERROR DETECTION; HAZARDS AND RACE CONDITIONS; SEMANTICS;

ASSERTION CHECKING; CONCURRENT PROGRAMS; CONCURRENT SOFTWARE; MODEL CHECKING; PROGRAM ANALYSIS; RACE DETECTION;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 4544338964     PISSN: 03621340     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/996893.996845     Document Type: Conference Paper

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