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Run-Time Deadlock Detection

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This chapter reports research that is partly funded by the EU project FP7-610582 Envisage. It describes a method for detecting at run-time deadlock in both multi-threaded Java programs and systems of concurrent objects. The method is based on attribute grammars for specifying properties of message sequences. For multi-threaded Java programs we focus on the actual tool-development which extends the run-time checking of assertions. For concurrent objects which communicate via asynchronous message passing and synchronize on futures which store the return values, we present the underlying theory and sketch its implementation.

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    Here CFL stands for “Context Free Language”.

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    Due to re-entrance, locks in Java can be acquired more than once by the same thread.

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We thank the anonymous reviewers for their most constructive and helpful comments.

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    Frank S. de Boer & Stijn de Gouw

  2. Open University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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  3. Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands

    Frank S. de Boer

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de Boer, F.S., de Gouw, S. (2017). Run-Time Deadlock Detection. In: Hinchey, M., Bowen, J., Olderog, ER. (eds) Provably Correct Systems. NASA Monographs in Systems and Software Engineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48628-4_10

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