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Summary: Automatic Verification of Directory-based
Consistency Protocols
Parosh Aziz Abdulla1
parosh@it.uu.se,
Giorgio Delzanno2
giorgio@disi.unige.it, and
Ahmed Rezine3
rezine.ahmed@liafa.jussieu.fr
1
Uppsala University, Sweden
2
Universit`a di Genova, Italy
3
University of Paris 7, France.
Abstract. We propose a symbolic verification method for directory-
based consistency protocols working for an arbitrary number of con-
trolled resources and competing processes. We use a graph-based lan-
guage to specify in a uniform way both client/server interaction schemes
and manipulation of directories that contain the access rights of indi-
vidual clients. Graph transformations model the dynamics of a given
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