Modular verification of preemptive OS kernels

Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Functional Programming, ICFP

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 404-417

  Gotsman, Alexey ^a   Yang, Hongseok ^b  

^a IMDEA SOFTWARE INSTITUTE   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Concurrency; Modularity; Scheduling; Verification

Indexed keywords

ABSTRACT MACHINES; AXIOMATIC SEMANTICS; CONCURRENCY; FREEBSD; KERNEL MODE; MODULAR VERIFICATION; MODULARITY; MULTI PROCESSOR SYSTEMS; OPERATIONAL SEMANTICS; RUNNING-IN; SEPARATION LOGIC; TWO-COMPONENT;

COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; CONCURRENCY CONTROL; FORMAL LOGIC; FUNCTIONAL PROGRAMMING; MULTIPROCESSING SYSTEMS; SEMANTICS;

SCHEDULING;

EID: 80054069825     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2034773.2034827     Document Type: Conference Paper

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