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Asynchronous Cooperative Contracts for Cooperative Scheduling

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Formal specification of multi-threaded programs is notoriously hard, because thread execution may be preempted at any point. In contrast, abstract concurrency models such as actors seriously restrict concurrency to obtain race-free programs. Languages with cooperative scheduling occupy a middle ground between these extremes by explicit scheduling points. They have been used to model complex, industrial concurrent systems. This paper introduces cooperative contracts, a contract-based specification approach for asynchronous method calls in presence of cooperative scheduling. It permits to specify complex concurrent behavior succinctly and intuitively. We design a compositional program logic to verify cooperative contracts and discuss how global analyses can be soundly integrated into the program logic.

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This work is supported by the SIRIUS Centre for Scalable Data Access and the FormbaR project, part of AG Signalling/DB RailLab in the Innovation Alliance of Deutsche Bahn AG and TU Darmstadt.

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    Eduard Kamburjan & Reiner Hähnle

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    Crystal Chang Din & Einar Broch Johnsen

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Kamburjan, E., Din, C.C., Hähnle, R., Johnsen, E.B. (2019). Asynchronous Cooperative Contracts for Cooperative Scheduling. In: Ölveczky, P., Salaün, G. (eds) Software Engineering and Formal Methods. SEFM 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11724. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30446-1_3

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