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Zhiheng Cai
dblp:226/7836
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2ranked-venue papers
2as first author
2since 2021 · last 2026
—ORCID · none
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Software engineering, systems software and programming languages · 1 · 1 first-author · 1 since 2021Databases, data management, data science and information retrieval · 1 · 1 first-author · 1 since 2021Theory of computation · 1 · 1 first-author · 1 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Software engineering, system software, and programming languages
2 papers |
Program verification · 56% Concurrent programming · 44% | |
| Databases, data mining, and information retrieval
1 paper |
Transaction processing and concurrency control · 100% | |
| Theoretical computer science
1 paper |
Automated reasoning and model checking · 100% |
Topics — the 4 heaviest of 5, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Program verification › model checking
bounded model checking |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | A Refined Ordering Consistency Theory: Full Sequential Consistency and Generalized Preventive Reasoning · FM (1) 2026 |
Concurrent programming
memory models |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | A Refined Ordering Consistency Theory: Full Sequential Consistency and Generalized Preventive Reasoning · FM (1) 2026 |
Transaction processing and concurrency control
transaction isolation |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Fast Verification of Strong Database Isolation · Proc. VLDB Endow. 2025 |
Automated reasoning and model checking
satisfiability modulo theories |
0.3 | 1 | 2026 | A Refined Ordering Consistency Theory: Full Sequential Consistency and Generalized Preventive Reasoning · FM (1) 2026 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
ordering consistency theory · 2.0SMT solving · 2.0
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | A Refined Ordering Consistency Theory: Full Sequential Consistency and Generalized Preventive ReasoningabstractAbstract SMT solving with ordering consistency theory achieves state-of-the-art efficiency in bounded model checking of concurrent programs. At its core is a dedicated theory solver that derives the write-serialization (WS) and from-read (FR) orders on the fly, thereby allowing their explicit encodings to be omitted. Additionally, the solver is equipped with preventive propagation , which proactively eliminates theory-level conflicts. This work presents a refined ordering consistency theory that overcomes two existing limitations. First, we address the weak SC problem , where the solver may fail to reconstruct a total WS order and thus admit executions weaker than Sequential Consistency. We identify the core reason as insufficient constraints on WS totality. As a solution, we restore the WS encodings to ensure its totality, while preserving WS derivation to curb the resulting growth in the search space. Second, the existing framework for preventive propagation does not support WS variables or atomicity constraints. We extend it to incorporate these elements, yielding a more general and principled propagation mechanism. Experiments show that our approach soundly prevents weak-SC behaviors, enables effective propagation, and maintains competitive overall performance. Zhiheng Cai, Zhihang Sun, Fei He 0001 |
FM (1) | 1 |
| 2025 | Fast Verification of Strong Database Isolation
Zhiheng Cai, Si Liu 0003, Hengfeng Wei, Yuxing Chen 0003, Anqun Pan |
Proc. VLDB Endow. | 1 |