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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2014.611
URN: urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-48754
URL: http://dagstuhl.sunsite.rwth-aachen.de/volltexte/2014/4875/
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Atig, Mohamed Faouzi ; Bouajjani, Ahmed ; Narayan Kumar, K. ; Saivasan, Prakash

On Bounded Reachability Analysis of Shared Memory Systems

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Abstract

This paper addresses the reachability problem for pushdown systems communicating via shared memory. It is already known that this problem is undecidable. It turns out that undecidability holds even if the shared memory consists of a single boolean variable. We propose a restriction on the behaviours of such systems, called stage bound, towards decidability. A k stage bounded run can be split into a k stages, such that in each stage there is at most one process writing to the shared memory while any number of processes may read from it. We consider several versions of stage-bounded systems and establish decidability and complexity results.

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@InProceedings{atig_et_al:LIPIcs:2014:4875,
  author =	{Mohamed Faouzi Atig and Ahmed Bouajjani and K. Narayan Kumar and Prakash Saivasan},
  title =	{{On Bounded Reachability Analysis of Shared Memory Systems}},
  booktitle =	{34th International Conference on Foundation of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science (FSTTCS 2014)},
  pages =	{611--623},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-939897-77-4},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2014},
  volume =	{29},
  editor =	{Venkatesh Raman and S. P. Suresh},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl--Leibniz-Zentrum fuer Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{http://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2014/4875},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-48754},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2014.611},
  annote =	{Keywords: Reachability problem, Pushdown systems, Counter systems}
}

Keywords: Reachability problem, Pushdown systems, Counter systems
Collection: 34th International Conference on Foundation of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science (FSTTCS 2014)
Issue Date: 2014
Date of publication: 12.12.2014

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