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ICSE 2023
Sun 14 - Sat 20 May 2023 Melbourne, Australia
Wed 17 May 2023 11:45 - 12:00 at Meeting Room 104 - Formal verification Chair(s): Bonita Sharif

Rely/guarantee reasoning provides a compositional approach to reasoning about concurrent programs. However, such reasoning traditionally assumes a sequentially consistent memory model and hence is unsound on modern hardware in the presence of data races. In this paper, we present a rely/guarantee-based approach for multicopy atomic weak memory models, i.e., where a thread’s stores become observable to all other threads at the same time. Such memory models include those of the widely used x86-TSO and ARMv8 processor architectures, as well as the open-source RISC-V architecture. In this context, an operational semantics can be based on thread-local instruction reordering. We exploit this to provide an efficient compositional proof technique in which weak memory behaviour can be shown to preserve rely/guarantee reasoning on a sequentially consistent memory model. To achieve this, we introduce a side-condition, reordering interference freedom, reducing the complexity of weak memory to checks over pairs of reorderable instructions. To enable practical application, we also define a dataflow analysis capable of identifying a thread’s reorderable instructions. All aspects of our approach have been encoded and proved sound in Isabelle/HOL.

Wed 17 May

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11:00 - 12:30
11:00
15m
Talk
How Do We Read Formal Claims? Eye-Tracking and the Cognition of Proofs about Algorithms
Technical Track
Hammad Ahmad University of Michigan, Zachary Karas University of Michigan, Kimberly Diaz University of Michigan, Amir Kamil University of Michigan, Jean-Baptiste Jeannin University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, Westley Weimer University of Michigan
11:15
15m
Talk
Which of My Assumptions are Unnecessary for Realizability and Why Should I Care?
Technical Track
Rafi Shalom Tel Aviv University, Israel, Shahar Maoz Tel Aviv University
Pre-print
11:30
15m
Talk
Understanding Inconsistency in Azure Cosmos DB with TLA+
SEIP - Software Engineering in Practice
Alistair Finn Hackett University of British Columbia, Joshua Rowe Microsoft, Markus Alexander Kuppe Microsoft Research
11:45
15m
Talk
Rely/Guarantee Reasoning for Multicopy Atomic Weak Memory Models
Showcase
Nicholas Coughlin Defence Science and Technology Group, Australia, Kirsten Winter Defence Science and Technology Group, Australia, Graeme Smith The University of Queensland
12:00
7m
Talk
HOME: Heard-Of based Formal Modeling and Verification Environment for Consensus Protocols
DEMO - Demonstrations
Shumao Zhai Beihang University, Xiaozhou Li University of Oulu, Ning Ge School of Software, Beihang University
12:07
7m
Talk
CoVeriTeam Service: Verification as a Service
DEMO - Demonstrations
Dirk Beyer LMU Munich, Sudeep Kanav LMU Munich, Henrik Wachowitz LMU Munich
12:15
7m
Talk
Proofster: Automated Formal Verification
DEMO - Demonstrations
Arpan Agrawal University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Emily First University of Massachusetts Amherst, Zhanna Kaufman University of Massachusetts, Tom Reichel University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Shizhuo Zhang University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Timothy Zhou University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Alex Sanchez-Stern University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Talia Ringer University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Yuriy Brun University of Massachusetts
Media Attached
12:22
7m
Talk
Anti-Patterns (Smells) in Temporal Specifications
NIER - New Ideas and Emerging Results
Dor Ma'ayan Tel Aviv University, Shahar Maoz Tel Aviv University, Jan Oliver Ringert Bauhaus-University Weimar
Pre-print