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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.CONCUR.2026.1

On the Role of Prose in Specifications (Invited Talk)

Authors: Jade Alglave

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 391, 37th International Conference on Concurrency Theory (CONCUR 2026)

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Specifications should let users find answers to their questions. Those answers should be accessible, unambiguous, consensual, reproducible, auditable, and they should be traceable to the artefacts users actually read. This paper uses work done by the Arm Architecture Formal Team as a case study in the tensions between those requirements.

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Jade Alglave. On the Role of Prose in Specifications (Invited Talk). In 37th International Conference on Concurrency Theory (CONCUR 2026). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 391, pp. 1:1-1:15, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2026)

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@InProceedings{alglave:LIPIcs.CONCUR.2026.1,
  author =	{Alglave, Jade},
  title =	{{On the Role of Prose in Specifications}},
  booktitle =	{37th International Conference on Concurrency Theory (CONCUR 2026)},
  pages =	{1:1--1:15},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-447-5},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2026},
  volume =	{391},
  editor =	{Sokolova, Ana and Totzke, Patrick},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.CONCUR.2026.1},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-273326},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.CONCUR.2026.1},
  annote =	{Keywords: Arm Architecture, (prose, formal, executable, queryable, accessible) specifications, concurrency, herdtools, litmus tests, instruction set, Architecture Specification Language (ASL), The Architecture Speaks, query interface}
}

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DOI: 10.4230/DagRep.6.11.108

Concurrency with Weak Memory Models (Dagstuhl Seminar 16471)

Authors: Jade Alglave, Patrick Cousot, and Caterina Urban

Published in: Dagstuhl Reports, Volume 6, Issue 11 (2017)

Abstract

This report documents the program and the outcomes of Dagstuhl Seminar 16471 "Concurrency with Weak Memory Models: Semantics, Languages, Compilation, Verification, Static Analysis, and Synthesis". The aim of the seminar was to bring together people from various horizons, including theoreticians and verification practitioners as well as hardware vendors, in order to set up a long-term research program to design formal methods and develop tools ensuring the correctness of concurrent programs on modern multi-processor architectures.

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Jade Alglave, Patrick Cousot, and Caterina Urban. Concurrency with Weak Memory Models (Dagstuhl Seminar 16471). In Dagstuhl Reports, Volume 6, Issue 11, pp. 108-128, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2017)

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@Article{alglave_et_al:DagRep.6.11.108,
  author =	{Alglave, Jade and Cousot, Patrick and Urban, Caterina},
  title =	{{Concurrency with Weak Memory Models (Dagstuhl Seminar 16471)}},
  pages =	{108--128},
  journal =	{Dagstuhl Reports},
  ISSN =	{2192-5283},
  year =	{2017},
  volume =	{6},
  number =	{11},
  editor =	{Alglave, Jade and Cousot, Patrick and Urban, Caterina},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/DagRep.6.11.108},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-70415},
  doi =		{10.4230/DagRep.6.11.108},
  annote =	{Keywords: Compilation, Computer Memory, Concurrency, Memory Barrier, Memory Ordering, Micro-Architecture, Multiprocessor, Out-of-Order Execution, Parallelism, Program Synthesis, Programming Language, Semantics, Static Analysis, Verification, Weak Memory Model}
}

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