11 Search Results for "De Meuter, Wolfgang"

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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2024.8
Understanding Concurrency Bugs in Real-World Programs with Kotlin Coroutines

Authors: Bob Brockbernd, Nikita Koval, Arie van Deursen, and Burcu Kulahcioglu Ozkan

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 313, 38th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2024)

Abstract
Kotlin language has recently become prominent for developing both Android and server-side applications. These programs are typically designed to be fast and responsive, with asynchrony and concurrency at their core. To enable developers to write asynchronous and concurrent code safely and concisely, Kotlin provides built-in coroutines support. However, developers unfamiliar with the coroutines concept may write programs with subtle concurrency bugs and face unexpected program behaviors. Besides the traditional concurrency bug patterns, such as data races and deadlocks, these bugs may exhibit patterns related to the coroutine semantics. Understanding these coroutine-specific bug patterns in real-world Kotlin applications is essential in avoiding common mistakes and writing correct programs. In this paper, we present the first study of real-world concurrency bugs related to Kotlin coroutines. We examined 55 concurrency bug cases selected from 7 popular open-source repositories that use Kotlin coroutines, including IntelliJ IDEA, Firefox, and Ktor, and analyzed their bug characteristics and root causes. We identified common bug patterns related to asynchrony and Kotlin’s coroutine semantics, presenting them with their root causes, misconceptions that led to the bugs, and strategies for their automated detection. Overall, this study provides insight into programming with Kotlin coroutines concurrency and its pitfalls, aiming to shed light on common bug patterns and foster further research and development of concurrency analysis tools for Kotlin programs.
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Bob Brockbernd, Nikita Koval, Arie van Deursen, and Burcu Kulahcioglu Ozkan. Understanding Concurrency Bugs in Real-World Programs with Kotlin Coroutines. In 38th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2024). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 313, pp. 8:1-8:20, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2024)

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@InProceedings{brockbernd_et_al:LIPIcs.ECOOP.2024.8,
  author =	{Brockbernd, Bob and Koval, Nikita and van Deursen, Arie and Ozkan, Burcu Kulahcioglu},
  title =	{{Understanding Concurrency Bugs in Real-World Programs with Kotlin Coroutines}},
  booktitle =	{38th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2024)},
  pages =	{8:1--8:20},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-341-6},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2024},
  volume =	{313},
  editor =	{Aldrich, Jonathan and Salvaneschi, Guido},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2024.8},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-208579},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2024.8},
  annote =	{Keywords: Kotlin, coroutines, concurrency, asynchrony, software bugs}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2024.13
Pure Methods for roDOT

Authors: Vlastimil Dort, Yufeng Li, Ondřej Lhoták, and Pavel Parízek

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 313, 38th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2024)

Abstract
Object-oriented programming languages typically allow mutation of objects, but pure methods are common too. There is great interest in recognizing which methods are pure, because it eases analysis of program behavior and allows modifying the program without changing its behavior. The roDOT calculus is a formal calculus extending DOT with reference mutability. In this paper, we explore purity conditions in roDOT and pose a SEF guarantee, by which the type system guarantees that methods of certain types are side-effect free. We use the idea from ReIm to detect pure methods by argument types. Applying this idea to roDOT required just a few changes to the type system, but necessitated re-working a significant part of the soundness proof. In addition, we state a transformation guarantee, which states that in a roDOT program, calls to SEF methods can be safely reordered without changing the outcome of the program. We proved type soundness of the updated roDOT calculus, using multiple layers of typing judgments. We proved the SEF guarantee by applying the Immutability guarantee, and the transformation guarantee by applying the SEF guarantee within a framework for reasoning about safe transformations of roDOT programs. All proofs are mechanized in Coq.
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Vlastimil Dort, Yufeng Li, Ondřej Lhoták, and Pavel Parízek. Pure Methods for roDOT. In 38th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2024). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 313, pp. 13:1-13:29, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2024)

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@InProceedings{dort_et_al:LIPIcs.ECOOP.2024.13,
  author =	{Dort, Vlastimil and Li, Yufeng and Lhot\'{a}k, Ond\v{r}ej and Par{\'\i}zek, Pavel},
  title =	{{Pure Methods for roDOT}},
  booktitle =	{38th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2024)},
  pages =	{13:1--13:29},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-341-6},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2024},
  volume =	{313},
  editor =	{Aldrich, Jonathan and Salvaneschi, Guido},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2024.13},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-208624},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2024.13},
  annote =	{Keywords: type systems, DOT calculus, pure methods}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2024.17
Fair Join Pattern Matching for Actors

Authors: Philipp Haller, Ayman Hussein, Hernán Melgratti, Alceste Scalas, and Emilio Tuosto

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 313, 38th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2024)

Abstract
Join patterns provide a promising approach to the development of concurrent and distributed message-passing applications. Several variations and implementations have been presented in the literature - but various aspects remain under-explored: in particular, how to specify a suitable notion of message matching, how to implement it correctly and efficiently, and how to systematically evaluate the implementation performance. In this work we focus on actor-based programming, and study the application of join patterns with conditional guards (i.e., the most expressive and challenging version of join patterns in literature). We formalise a novel specification of fair and deterministic join pattern matching, ensuring that older messages are always consumed if they can be matched. We present a stateful, tree-based join pattern matching algorithm and prove that it correctly implements our fair and deterministic matching specification. We present a novel Scala 3 actor library (called JoinActors) that implements our join pattern formalisation, leveraging macros to provide an intuitive API. Finally, we evaluate the performance of our implementation, by introducing a systematic benchmarking approach that takes into account the nuances of join pattern matching (in particular, its sensitivity to input traffic and complexity of patterns and guards).
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Philipp Haller, Ayman Hussein, Hernán Melgratti, Alceste Scalas, and Emilio Tuosto. Fair Join Pattern Matching for Actors. In 38th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2024). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 313, pp. 17:1-17:28, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2024)

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@InProceedings{haller_et_al:LIPIcs.ECOOP.2024.17,
  author =	{Haller, Philipp and Hussein, Ayman and Melgratti, Hern\'{a}n and Scalas, Alceste and Tuosto, Emilio},
  title =	{{Fair Join Pattern Matching for Actors}},
  booktitle =	{38th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2024)},
  pages =	{17:1--17:28},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-341-6},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2024},
  volume =	{313},
  editor =	{Aldrich, Jonathan and Salvaneschi, Guido},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2024.17},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-208663},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2024.17},
  annote =	{Keywords: Concurrency, join patterns, join calculus, actor model}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2020.19
Tackling the Awkward Squad for Reactive Programming: The Actor-Reactor Model

Authors: Sam Van den Vonder, Thierry Renaux, Bjarno Oeyen, Joeri De Koster, and Wolfgang De Meuter

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 166, 34th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2020)

Abstract
Reactive programming is a programming paradigm whereby programs are internally represented by a dependency graph, which is used to automatically (re)compute parts of a program whenever its input changes. In practice reactive programming can only be used for some parts of an application: a reactive program is usually embedded in an application that is still written in ordinary imperative languages such as JavaScript or Scala. In this paper we investigate this embedding and we distill "the awkward squad for reactive programming" as 3 concerns that are essential for real-world software development, but that do not fit within reactive programming. They are related to long lasting computations, side-effects, and the coordination between imperative and reactive code. To solve these issues we design a new programming model called the Actor-Reactor Model in which programs are split up in a number of actors and reactors. Actors and reactors enforce a strict separation of imperative and reactive code, and they can be composed via a number of composition operators that make use of data streams. We demonstrate the model via our own implementation in a language called Stella.
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Sam Van den Vonder, Thierry Renaux, Bjarno Oeyen, Joeri De Koster, and Wolfgang De Meuter. Tackling the Awkward Squad for Reactive Programming: The Actor-Reactor Model. In 34th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2020). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 166, pp. 19:1-19:29, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2020)

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@InProceedings{vandenvonder_et_al:LIPIcs.ECOOP.2020.19,
  author =	{Van den Vonder, Sam and Renaux, Thierry and Oeyen, Bjarno and De Koster, Joeri and De Meuter, Wolfgang},
  title =	{{Tackling the Awkward Squad for Reactive Programming: The Actor-Reactor Model}},
  booktitle =	{34th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2020)},
  pages =	{19:1--19:29},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-154-2},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2020},
  volume =	{166},
  editor =	{Hirschfeld, Robert and Pape, Tobias},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2020.19},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-131768},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2020.19},
  annote =	{Keywords: functional reactive programming, reactive programming, reactive streams, actors, reactors}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/DARTS.6.2.7
Tackling the Awkward Squad for Reactive Programming: The Actor-Reactor Model (Artifact)

Authors: Sam Van den Vonder, Thierry Renaux, Bjarno Oeyen, Joeri De Koster, and Wolfgang De Meuter

Published in: DARTS, Volume 6, Issue 2, Special Issue of the 34th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2020)

Abstract
This artefact provides runnable versions of the code samples given in the main publication. An interpreter for the Stella language is provided together with a basic web-based IDE (syntax highlighting + running programs) which is able to run all Stella code given in the main publication. Also included are runnable implementations of the running example from the main publication (a simple wind turbine simulator) implemented in Stella and 6 other languages and frameworks (Akka, Flapjax, FrTime, ReactJS, REScala, and RxJS). While we do not discuss how these other technologies work, we highlight the interesting parts of the implementations of the running example: the difficulties we had, and any particular points of interest related to the claims made in the main publication.
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Sam Van den Vonder, Thierry Renaux, Bjarno Oeyen, Joeri De Koster, and Wolfgang De Meuter. Tackling the Awkward Squad for Reactive Programming: The Actor-Reactor Model (Artifact). In Special Issue of the 34th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2020). Dagstuhl Artifacts Series (DARTS), Volume 6, Issue 2, pp. 7:1-7:4, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2020)

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@Article{vandenvonder_et_al:DARTS.6.2.7,
  author =	{Van den Vonder, Sam and Renaux, Thierry and Oeyen, Bjarno and De Koster, Joeri and De Meuter, Wolfgang},
  title =	{{Tackling the Awkward Squad for Reactive Programming: The Actor-Reactor Model (Artifact)}},
  pages =	{7:1--7:4},
  journal =	{Dagstuhl Artifacts Series},
  ISSN =	{2509-8195},
  year =	{2020},
  volume =	{6},
  number =	{2},
  editor =	{Van den Vonder, Sam and Renaux, Thierry and Oeyen, Bjarno and De Koster, Joeri and De Meuter, Wolfgang},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/DARTS.6.2.7},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-132045},
  doi =		{10.4230/DARTS.6.2.7},
  annote =	{Keywords: functional reactive programming, reactive programming, reactive streams, actors, reactors}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2018.14
Static Typing of Complex Presence Constraints in Interfaces

Authors: Nathalie Oostvogels, Joeri De Koster, and Wolfgang De Meuter

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 109, 32nd European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2018)

Abstract
Many functions in libraries and APIs have the notion of optional parameters, which can be mapped onto optional properties of an object representing those parameters. The fact that properties are optional opens up the possibility for APIs and libraries to design a complex "dependency logic" between properties: for example, some properties may be mutually exclusive, some properties may depend on others, etc. Existing type systems are not strong enough to express such dependency logic, which can lead to the creation of invalid objects and accidental usage of absent properties. In this paper we propose TypeScriptIPC: a variant of TypeScript with a novel type system that enables programmers to express complex presence constraints on properties. We prove that it is sound with respect to enforcing complex dependency logic defined by the programmer when an object is created, modified or accessed.
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Nathalie Oostvogels, Joeri De Koster, and Wolfgang De Meuter. Static Typing of Complex Presence Constraints in Interfaces. In 32nd European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2018). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 109, pp. 14:1-14:27, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2018)

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@InProceedings{oostvogels_et_al:LIPIcs.ECOOP.2018.14,
  author =	{Oostvogels, Nathalie and De Koster, Joeri and De Meuter, Wolfgang},
  title =	{{Static Typing of Complex Presence Constraints in Interfaces}},
  booktitle =	{32nd European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2018)},
  pages =	{14:1--14:27},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-079-8},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2018},
  volume =	{109},
  editor =	{Millstein, Todd},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2018.14},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-92196},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2018.14},
  annote =	{Keywords: type checking, interfaces, dependency logic}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/DARTS.4.3.3
Static Typing of Complex Presence Constraints in Interfaces (Artifact)

Authors: Nathalie Oostvogels, Joeri De Koster, and Wolfgang De Meuter

Published in: DARTS, Volume 4, Issue 3, Special Issue of the 32nd European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2018)

Abstract
This artifact is based on TypeScriptIPC, a statically typed programming language with interfaces in which complex presence constraints can be defined. This enables developers to express inter-property constraints on interface properties. The need for these inter-property constraints stems from web APIs, which often impose a complex "dependency logic" between properties. For example, some properties may be mutually exclusive, or the presence of a property may depend on the presence of others, etc. TypeScriptIPC is a variant of TypeScript, in which interfaces are extended to express constraints over multiple properties, using propositional logic. This artifact contains documentation on how to build and run TypeScriptIPC, such that the code snippets from the paper can be run.
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Nathalie Oostvogels, Joeri De Koster, and Wolfgang De Meuter. Static Typing of Complex Presence Constraints in Interfaces (Artifact). In Special Issue of the 32nd European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2018). Dagstuhl Artifacts Series (DARTS), Volume 4, Issue 3, pp. 3:1-3:2, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2018)

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@Article{oostvogels_et_al:DARTS.4.3.3,
  author =	{Oostvogels, Nathalie and De Koster, Joeri and De Meuter, Wolfgang},
  title =	{{Static Typing of Complex Presence Constraints in Interfaces (Artifact)}},
  pages =	{3:1--3:2},
  journal =	{Dagstuhl Artifacts Series},
  ISSN =	{2509-8195},
  year =	{2018},
  volume =	{4},
  number =	{3},
  editor =	{Oostvogels, Nathalie and De Koster, Joeri and De Meuter, Wolfgang},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/DARTS.4.3.3},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-92422},
  doi =		{10.4230/DARTS.4.3.3},
  annote =	{Keywords: type system, interfaces, dependency logic}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/DARTS.3.2.11
Mailbox Abstractions for Static Analysis of Actor Programs (Artifact)

Authors: Quentin Stiévenart, Jens Nicolay, Wolfgang De Meuter, and Coen De Roover

Published in: DARTS, Volume 3, Issue 2, Special Issue of the 31st European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2017)

Abstract
This artifact is based on Scala-AM, a static analysis framework relying on the Abstracting Abstract Machines approach. This version of the framework is extended to support actor-based programs, written in a variant of Scheme. The sound static analysis is performed in order to verify the absence of errors in actor-based program, and to compute upper bounds on actor's mailboxes. We developed several mailbox abstractions with which the static analysis can be run, and evaluate the precision of the technique with these mailbox abstractions. This artifact contains documentation on how to use analysis and on how to reproduce the results presented in the companion paper.
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Quentin Stiévenart, Jens Nicolay, Wolfgang De Meuter, and Coen De Roover. Mailbox Abstractions for Static Analysis of Actor Programs (Artifact). In Special Issue of the 31st European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2017). Dagstuhl Artifacts Series (DARTS), Volume 3, Issue 2, pp. 11:1-11:2, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2017)

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@Article{stievenart_et_al:DARTS.3.2.11,
  author =	{Sti\'{e}venart, Quentin and Nicolay, Jens and De Meuter, Wolfgang and De Roover, Coen},
  title =	{{Mailbox Abstractions for Static Analysis of Actor Programs (Artifact)}},
  pages =	{11:1--11:2},
  journal =	{Dagstuhl Artifacts Series},
  ISSN =	{2509-8195},
  year =	{2017},
  volume =	{3},
  number =	{2},
  editor =	{Sti\'{e}venart, Quentin and Nicolay, Jens and De Meuter, Wolfgang and De Roover, Coen},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/DARTS.3.2.11},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-72920},
  doi =		{10.4230/DARTS.3.2.11},
  annote =	{Keywords: static analysis, abstraction, abstract interpretation, actors, mailbox}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2017.25
Mailbox Abstractions for Static Analysis of Actor Programs

Authors: Quentin Stiévenart, Jens Nicolay, Wolfgang De Meuter, and Coen De Roover

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 74, 31st European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2017)

Abstract
Properties such as the absence of errors or bounds on mailbox sizes are hard to deduce statically for actor-based programs. This is because actor-based programs exhibit several sources of unboundedness, in addition to the non-determinism that is inherent to the concurrent execution of actors. We developed a static technique based on abstract interpretation to soundly reason in a finite amount of time about the possible executions of an actor-based program. We use our technique to statically verify the absence of errors in actor-based programs, and to compute upper bounds on the actors' mailboxes. Sound abstraction of these mailboxes is crucial to the precision of any such technique. We provide several mailbox abstractions and categorize them according to the extent to which they preserve message ordering and multiplicity of messages in a mailbox. We formally prove the soundness of each mailbox abstraction, and empirically evaluate their precision and performance trade-offs on a corpus of benchmark programs. The results show that our technique can statically verify the absence of errors for more benchmark programs than the state-of-the-art analysis.
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Quentin Stiévenart, Jens Nicolay, Wolfgang De Meuter, and Coen De Roover. Mailbox Abstractions for Static Analysis of Actor Programs. In 31st European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2017). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 74, pp. 25:1-25:30, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2017)

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@InProceedings{stievenart_et_al:LIPIcs.ECOOP.2017.25,
  author =	{Sti\'{e}venart, Quentin and Nicolay, Jens and De Meuter, Wolfgang and De Roover, Coen},
  title =	{{Mailbox Abstractions for Static Analysis of Actor Programs}},
  booktitle =	{31st European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2017)},
  pages =	{25:1--25:30},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-035-4},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2017},
  volume =	{74},
  editor =	{M\"{u}ller, Peter},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2017.25},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-72541},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2017.25},
  annote =	{Keywords: static analysis, abstraction, abstract interpretation, actors, mailbox}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2016.23
Transactional Tasks: Parallelism in Software Transactions

Authors: Janwillem Swalens, Joeri De Koster, and Wolfgang De Meuter

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 56, 30th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2016)

Abstract
Many programming languages, such as Clojure, Scala, and Haskell, support different concurrency models. In practice these models are often combined, however the semantics of the combinations are not always well-defined. In this paper, we study the combination of futures and Software Transactional Memory. Currently, futures created within a transaction cannot access the transactional state safely, violating the serializability of the transactions and leading to undesired behavior. We define transactional tasks: a construct that allows futures to be created in transactions. Transactional tasks allow the parallelism in a transaction to be exploited, while providing safe access to the state of their encapsulating transaction. We show that transactional tasks have several useful properties: they are coordinated, they maintain serializability, and they do not introduce non-determinism. As such, transactional tasks combine futures and Software Transactional Memory, allowing the potential parallelism of a program to be fully exploited, while preserving the properties of the separate models where possible.
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Janwillem Swalens, Joeri De Koster, and Wolfgang De Meuter. Transactional Tasks: Parallelism in Software Transactions. In 30th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2016). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 56, pp. 23:1-23:28, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2016)

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@InProceedings{swalens_et_al:LIPIcs.ECOOP.2016.23,
  author =	{Swalens, Janwillem and De Koster, Joeri and De Meuter, Wolfgang},
  title =	{{Transactional Tasks: Parallelism in Software Transactions}},
  booktitle =	{30th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2016)},
  pages =	{23:1--23:28},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-014-9},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2016},
  volume =	{56},
  editor =	{Krishnamurthi, Shriram and Lerner, Benjamin S.},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2016.23},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-61173},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2016.23},
  annote =	{Keywords: Concurrency, Parallelism, Futures, Threads, Fork/Join, Software Transactional Memory}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/DARTS.2.1.13
Transactional Tasks: Parallelism in Software Transactions (Artifact)

Authors: Janwillem Swalens

Published in: DARTS, Volume 2, Issue 1, Special Issue of the 30th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2016)

Abstract
Many programming languages support different concurrency models. In practice these models are often combined, however the semantics of the combinations are not always well-defined. We studied the combination of futures and Software Transactional Memory. We introduce transactional tasks, a mechanism to create futures in a transaction. Transactional tasks allow the parallelism in a transaction to be exploited, while providing safe access to the state of their encapsulating transaction. We created Clojure-TxTk, a fork of Clojure with support for transactional tasks. Furthermore, we ported two applications from the STAMP benchmark suite, and extended these to use transactional tasks: Labyrinth-TxTk and Bayes-TxTk. Lastly, TxTk-Redex is a machine-executable implementation of the operational semantics, in PLT Redex.
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Janwillem Swalens. Transactional Tasks: Parallelism in Software Transactions (Artifact). In Special Issue of the 30th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2016). Dagstuhl Artifacts Series (DARTS), Volume 2, Issue 1, pp. 13:1-13:2, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2016)

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@Article{swalens:DARTS.2.1.13,
  author =	{Swalens, Janwillem},
  title =	{{Transactional Tasks: Parallelism in Software Transactions (Artifact)}},
  pages =	{13:1--13:2},
  journal =	{Dagstuhl Artifacts Series},
  ISSN =	{2509-8195},
  year =	{2016},
  volume =	{2},
  number =	{1},
  editor =	{Swalens, Janwillem},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/DARTS.2.1.13},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-61348},
  doi =		{10.4230/DARTS.2.1.13},
  annote =	{Keywords: Concurrency, Parallelism, Futures, Threads, Fork/Join, Software Transactional Memory}
}
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