Peter Müller has been Full Professor and head of the Chair of Programming Methodology at ETH Zurich since August 2008. His research focuses on languages, techniques, and tools for the development of correct software. His previous appointments include a position as Researcher at Microsoft Research in Redmond, an Assistant Professorship at ETH Zurich, and a position as Project Manager at Deutsche Bank in Frankfurt. Peter Müller received his PhD from the University of Hagen.

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60 Minutes

Kaiserslautern

Finite blocking is an important correctness property of multi-threaded programs. It requires that each blocking operation such as acquiring a lock or joining a thread executes eventually. In addition to deadlock freedom, finite blocking in the presence of non-terminating threads requires one to prove that no thread holds a lock indefinitely or attempts to join a non-terminating thread. In this talk, I will present a verification technique for finite blocking of possibly non-terminating programs. The key idea is to track explicitly whether a thread has an obligation to perform an operation that releases another thread from being blocked, for instance, an obligation to release a lock or to terminate. Each obligation is associated with a lifetime to ensure that it is fulfilled within finitely many steps. Our technique guarantees finite blocking for programs with a finite number of threads and fair scheduling. We have implemented our technique in the automatic program verifier Chalice.

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