Model checking transactional memories

ACM SIGPLAN Notices

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 372-382

  Guerraoui, Rachid ^a   Henzinger, Thomas A ^a   Jobstmann, Barbara ^a   Singh, Vasu ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Model checking; Transactional memories

Indexed keywords

CONCURRENCY CONTROL; LOCKS (FASTENERS); STORAGE ALLOCATION (COMPUTER);

CONCURRENT TRANSACTIONS; FINITE-STATE TRANSITION SYSTEMS; LIVENESS PROPERTIES; MODEL CHECKING SOFTWARE; OPTIMISTIC CONCURRENCY CONTROLS; SIMULATION RELATION; TRANSACTIONAL MEMORY; VERIFICATION PROBLEMS;

MODEL CHECKING;

EID: 67650076896     PISSN: 15232867     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1379022.1375626     Document Type: Article

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