In this paper, we have studied the notion of atomicity in message-passing distributed programs. The difference between the notion of atomicity in shared memory programs and messagepassing programs has been discussed in detail. Due to the nature of communication in messagepassing programs, the atomicity requirement in shared memory programs (serializability) does not guarantee the same level of atomicity in message-passing programs. We have referred to the atomicity level guaranteed by the serializability requirement in message-passing programs as the weak atomicity. We have defined the requirements that guarantee a level of atomicity in message-passing programs similar to that in shared memory programs. We have referred to it as the strong atomicity requirement. Both of weak and strong atomicity have been formally defined. The notion of atomicity can be employed to significantly reduce the state space to be considered in verification. Moreover, atomicity violations in a run typically indicate the presence of program bugs. Consequently, the concepts presented in this paper can be exploited to reduce the cost of the verification of message-passing distributed programs.
목차
Abstract 1. Introduction 2. RelatedWorks 3. A Formal Model of a Run of a Message-passing Distributed Program 4. Block-based Atomicity in Message-passing Distributed Programs 5. A Formal Model ofWeak and Strong Atomicity 6. Detecting Atomicity Violation 7. Conclusions and Future Work References
키워드
Distributed programsAtomicityVerificationState space reductionTestingDebugging.
저자
Eslam Al Maghayreh [ Computer Science Department Faculty of Information Technology and Computer Science Yarmouk University ]
보안공학연구지원센터(IJSEIA) [Science & Engineering Research Support Center, Republic of Korea(IJSEIA)]
설립연도
2006
분야
공학>컴퓨터학
소개
1. 보안공학에 대한 각종 조사 및 연구
2. 보안공학에 대한 응용기술 연구 및 발표
3. 보안공학에 관한 각종 학술 발표회 및 전시회 개최
4. 보안공학 기술의 상호 협조 및 정보교환
5. 보안공학에 관한 표준화 사업 및 규격의 제정
6. 보안공학에 관한 산학연 협동의 증진
7. 국제적 학술 교류 및 기술 협력
8. 보안공학에 관한 논문지 발간
9. 기타 본 회 목적 달성에 필요한 사업
간행물
간행물명
International Journal of Software Engineering and Its Applications
간기
월간
pISSN
1738-9984
수록기간
2008~2016
등재여부
SCOPUS
십진분류
KDC 505DDC 605
이 권호 내 다른 논문 / International Journal of Software Engineering and Its Applications Vol.6 No.4