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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.CONCUR.2015.483
URN: urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-53902
URL: http://dagstuhl.sunsite.rwth-aachen.de/volltexte/2015/5390/
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Gavran, Ivan ; Niksic, Filip ; Kanade, Aditya ; Majumdar, Rupak ; Vafeiadis, Viktor

Rely/Guarantee Reasoning for Asynchronous Programs

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Abstract

Asynchronous programming has become ubiquitous in smartphone and web application development, as well as in the development of server-side and system applications. Many of the uses of asynchrony can be modeled by extending programming languages with asynchronous procedure calls - procedures not executed immediately, but stored and selected for execution at a later point by a non-deterministic scheduler. Asynchronous calls induce a flow of control that is difficult to reason about, which in turn makes formal verification of asynchronous programs challenging. In response, we take a rely/guarantee approach: Each asynchronous procedure is verified separately with respect to its rely and guarantee predicates; the correctness of the whole program then follows from the natural conditions the rely/guarantee predicates have to satisfy. In this way, the verification of asynchronous programs is modularly decomposed into the more usual verification of sequential programs with synchronous calls. For the sequential program verification we use Hoare-style deductive reasoning, which we demonstrate on several simplified examples. These examples were inspired from programs written in C using the popular Libevent library; they are manually annotated and verified within the state-of-the-art Frama-C platform.

BibTeX - Entry

@InProceedings{gavran_et_al:LIPIcs:2015:5390,
  author =	{Ivan Gavran and Filip Niksic and Aditya Kanade and Rupak Majumdar and Viktor Vafeiadis},
  title =	{{Rely/Guarantee Reasoning for Asynchronous Programs}},
  booktitle =	{26th International Conference on Concurrency Theory (CONCUR 2015)},
  pages =	{483--496},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-939897-91-0},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2015},
  volume =	{42},
  editor =	{Luca Aceto and David de Frutos Escrig},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl--Leibniz-Zentrum fuer Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{http://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2015/5390},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-53902},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.CONCUR.2015.483},
  annote =	{Keywords: Asynchronous programs, rely/guarantee reasoning}
}

Keywords: Asynchronous programs, rely/guarantee reasoning
Collection: 26th International Conference on Concurrency Theory (CONCUR 2015)
Issue Date: 2015
Date of publication: 26.08.2015

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