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Multi-stack pushdown systems are a well-studied model of concurrent computation using threads with first-order procedure calls. While, in general, reachability is undecidable, there are numerous restrictions on stack behaviour that lead to decidability. To model higher-order procedures calls, a generalisation of pushdown stacks called collapsible pushdown stacks are required. Reachability problems for multi-stack collapsible pushdown systems have been little studied. Here, we study ordered, phase-bounded and scope-bounded multi-stack collapsible pushdown systems using saturation techniques, showing decidability of control state reachability and giving a regular representation of all configurations that can reach a given control state.
@InProceedings{hague:LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2013.313,
author = {Hague, Matthew},
title = {{Saturation of Concurrent Collapsible Pushdown Systems}},
booktitle = {IARCS Annual Conference on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science (FSTTCS 2013)},
pages = {313--325},
series = {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
ISBN = {978-3-939897-64-4},
ISSN = {1868-8969},
year = {2013},
volume = {24},
editor = {Seth, Anil and Vishnoi, Nisheeth K.},
publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
address = {Dagstuhl, Germany},
URL = {https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2013.313},
URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-43829},
doi = {10.4230/LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2013.313},
annote = {Keywords: Concurrency, Automata, Higher-Order, Verification, Model-Checking}
}