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      Quantifiability: Concurrent Correctness from First Principles

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          Architectural imperatives due to the slowing of Moore's Law, the broad acceptance of relaxed semantics and the O(n!) worst case verification complexity of generating sequential histories motivate a new approach to concurrent correctness. Desiderata for a new correctness condition are that it be independent of sequential histories, composable over objects, flexible as to timing, modular as to semantics and free of inherent locking or waiting. We propose Quantifiability, a novel correctness condition based on intuitive first principles. Quantifiability models a system in vector space to launch a new mathematical analysis of concurrency. The vector space model is suitable for a wide range of concurrent systems and their associated data structures. This paper formally defines quantifiablity with its system model and demonstrates useful properties such as compositionality. Analysis is facilitated with linear algebra, better supported and of much more efficient time complexity than traditional combinatorial methods. We present results showing that quantifiable data structures are highly scalable due to the usage of relaxed semantics, an explicit implementation trade-off that is permitted by quantifiability.

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                15 May 2019
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                1905.06421
                6c8bad1c-9fa6-4135-bb24-f42d6dff687f

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                Networking & Internet architecture
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