A scalable lock-free stack algorithm and its verification

Proceedings - 5th IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering and Formal Methods, SEFM 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 339-348

  Colvin, Robert ^a   Groves, Lindsay ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; CONCURRENCY CONTROL; SOFTWARE DESIGN; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; TECHNOLOGY; THEOREM PROVING;

CHALLENGING TASK; CONCURRENT ACCESS; CORE ALGORITHMS; FORMAL VERIFICATIONS; INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; LOCK-FREE; LOCK-FREE ALGORITHMS; ORIGINAL ALGORITHMS; PRIORITY INVERSION; PVS THEOREM; SHARED DATA; STACK ALGORITHM; STACK OPERATIONS;

FORMAL METHODS;

EID: 47949117177     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SEFM.2007.2     Document Type: Conference Paper

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