Abstract:Real-world concurrent software may be implemented with any number of processes which are linked together to form complex and dynamic network configurations. We formally model such concurrent software as processes running algorithms on data-structures with pointers. We show that the verification problem of such algorithms is undecidable. A new automatic approximation method is then proposed to safely verify such algorithms. The central idea is to construct a finite collective image set (CIS) which collapses rea… Show more
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