Resource Control for Synchronous Cooperative Threads
<|reference_start|>Resource Control for Synchronous Cooperative Threads: We develop new methods to statically bound the resources needed for the execution of systems of concurrent, interactive threads. Our study is concerned with a \emph{synchronous} model of interaction based on cooperative threads whose execution proceeds in synchronous rounds called instants. Our contribution is a system of compositional static analyses to guarantee that each instant terminates and to bound the size of the values computed by the system as a function of the size of its parameters at the beginning of the instant. Our method generalises an approach designed for first-order functional languages that relies on a combination of standard termination techniques for term rewriting systems and an analysis of the size of the computed values based on the notion of quasi-interpretation. We show that these two methods can be combined to obtain an explicit polynomial bound on the resources needed for the execution of the system during an instant. As a second contribution, we introduce a virtual machine and a related bytecode thus producing a precise description of the resources needed for the execution of a system. In this context, we present a suitable control flow analysis that allows to formulte the static analyses for resource control at byte code level.<|reference_end|>
@article{amadio2005resource,
    title={Resource Control for Synchronous Cooperative Threads},
    author={Roberto Amadio (PPS), Silvano Dal Zilio (LIF)},
    journal={Journal of Theoretical Computer Science (TCS) 358 (15/08/2006)
  229-254},
    year={2005},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    eprint={cs/0512057},
    primaryClass={cs.PL}
}