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Reasoning about Recursive Processes in Shared-Variable Concurrency

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In this paper an assertional proof method is introduced which captures concurrent systems consisting of dynamically created recursive processes which interact via shared-variables. The main contribution is a generalization of the Owicki & Gries proof method and a formal justification by soundness and completeness.

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de Boer, F.S. (2010). Reasoning about Recursive Processes in Shared-Variable Concurrency. In: Dams, D., Hannemann, U., Steffen, M. (eds) Concurrency, Compositionality, and Correctness. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5930. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-11512-7_9

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