@inproceedings{3319d89e8f2c4136a90509744dcb7015,
title = "On reducing linearizability to state reachability",
abstract = "Efficient implementations of atomic objects such as concurrent stacks and queues are especially susceptible to programming errors, and necessitate automatic verification. Unfortunately their correctness criteria {\textemdash} linearizability with respect to given ADT specifications {\textemdash} are hard to verify. Even on classes of implementations where the usual temporal safety properties like control-state reachability are decidable, linearizability is undecidable. In this work we demonstrate that verifying linearizability for certain fixed ADT specifications is reducible to control-state reachability, despite being harder for arbitrary ADTs. We effectuate this reduction for several of the most popular atomic objects. This reduction yields the first decidability results for verification without bounding the number of concurrent threads. Furthermore, it enables the application of existing safety-verification tools to linearizability verification.",
author = "Ahmed Bouajjani and Michael Emmi and Constantin Enea and Jad Hamza",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2015.; 42nd International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming, ICALP 2015 ; Conference date: 06-07-2015 Through 10-07-2015",
year = "2015",
month = jan,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-662-47666-6\_8",
language = "English",
isbn = "9783662476659",
series = "Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)",
publisher = "Springer Verlag",
pages = "95--107",
editor = "Naoki Kobayashi and Bettina Speckmann and Kazuo Iwama and Halldorsson, \{Magnus M.\}",
booktitle = "Automata, Languages, and Programming - 42nd International Colloquium, ICALP 2015, Proceedings",
}