A general technique for proving lock-freedom

Science of Computer Programming

Volumn 74, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 143-165

  Colvin, Robert ^a   Dongol, Brijesh ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Concurrency; Lock free programs; Temporal logic; Verification

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; TEMPORAL LOGIC; THEOREM PROVING;

CONCURRENCY; CONCURRENT PROGRAMS; LOCK-FREE PROGRAMS; MULTIPROCESSOR ARCHITECTURES; PROOF STRATEGIES; PVS THEOREMS; USER INTERACTIONS;

CONCURRENCY CONTROL;

EID: 58149175808     PISSN: 01676423     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scico.2008.09.013     Document Type: Article

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