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Modelling garbage collection algorithms - extend abstract

Howard Bowman, John Derrick, and Richard E. Jones

In Proceedings of Principles of Distributed Computing'94, pages 182-196, January 1994 Extended abstract of CCS94.

Abstract

We show how abstract requirements of garbage collection can be captured using temporal logic. The temporal logic specification can then be used as a basis for process algebra specifications which can involve varying amounts of parallelism. We present two simple CCS specifications as an example, followed by a more complex specification of the cyclic reference counting algorithm. The verification of such algorithms is then briefly discussed.

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Bibtex Record

@inproceedings{19,
author = {Howard Bowman and John Derrick and Richard E. Jones},
title = {Modelling Garbage Collection Algorithms --- Extend abstract},
month = {January},
year = {1994},
pages = {182-196},
keywords = {determinacy analysis, Craig interpolants},
note = {Extended abstract of CCS94},
doi = {},
url = {http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/pubs/1994/19},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of Principles of Distributed Computing'94},
}

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