On Bounded Reachability Analysis of Shared Memory Systems

Authors Mohamed Faouzi Atig, Ahmed Bouajjani, K. Narayan Kumar, Prakash Saivasan



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Mohamed Faouzi Atig
Ahmed Bouajjani
K. Narayan Kumar
Prakash Saivasan

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Mohamed Faouzi Atig, Ahmed Bouajjani, K. Narayan Kumar, and Prakash Saivasan. On Bounded Reachability Analysis of Shared Memory Systems. In 34th International Conference on Foundation of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science (FSTTCS 2014). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 29, pp. 611-623, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2014)
https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2014.611

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This paper addresses the reachability problem for pushdown systems communicating via shared memory. It is already known that this problem is undecidable. It turns out that undecidability holds even if the shared memory consists of a single boolean variable. We propose a restriction on the behaviours of such systems, called stage bound, towards decidability. A k stage bounded run can be split into a k stages, such that in each stage there is at most one process writing to the shared memory while any number of processes may read from it. We consider several versions of stage-bounded systems and establish decidability and complexity results.
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  • Reachability problem
  • Pushdown systems
  • Counter systems

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