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Thu 21 Jan 2016 10:55 - 11:20 at Grand Bay North - Track 1: Foundations of distributed systems Chair(s): Mooly Sagiv

Large-scale distributed systems often rely on replicated databases that allow a programmer to request different data consistency guarantees for different operations, and thereby control their performance. Using such databases is far from trivial: requesting stronger consistency in too many places may hurt performance, and requesting it in too few places may violate correctness. To help programmers in this task, we propose the first proof rule for establishing that a particular choice of consistency guarantees for various operations on a replicated database is enough to ensure the preservation of a given data integrity invariant. Our rule is modular: it allows reasoning about the behaviour of every operation separately under some assumption on the behaviour of other operations. This leads to simple reasoning, which we have automated in an SMT-based tool. We present a nontrivial proof of soundness of our rule and illustrate its use on several examples.

Thu 21 Jan

Displayed time zone: Guadalajara, Mexico City, Monterrey change

10:30 - 12:10
Track 1: Foundations of distributed systemsResearch Papers at Grand Bay North
Chair(s): Mooly Sagiv Tel Aviv University
10:30
25m
Talk
Certified Causally Consistent Distributed Key-Value Stores
Research Papers
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10:55
25m
Talk
'Cause I'm Strong Enough: Reasoning about Consistency Choices in Distributed Systems
Research Papers
Alexey Gotsman IMDEA, Hongseok Yang University of Oxford, UK, Carla Ferreira Universidade Nova Lisboa, Mahsa Najafzadeh UPMC & INRIA, Marc Shapiro Inria & LIP6
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11:20
25m
Talk
A Program Logic for Concurrent Objects under Fair Scheduling
Research Papers
Hongjin Liang University of Science and Technology of China, Xinyu Feng University of Science and Technology of China
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11:45
25m
Talk
PSync: a partially synchronous language for fault-tolerant distributed algorithms
Research Papers
Cezara Drăgoi INRIA, ENS, CNRS, Thomas A. Henzinger IST Austria, Damien Zufferey MIT
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