TY - CHAP SN - 978-3-642-30793-5 PB - Springer EP - 17 Y1 - 2012/// T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science SP - 1 T2 - Formal Techniques for Distributed Systems A1 - Lienhardt, Michael A1 - Lanese, Ivan A1 - Mezzina, Claudio Antares A1 - Stefani, Jean-Bernard AV - none ID - eprints2491 TI - A reversible abstract machine and its space overhead N1 - Joint 14th IFIP WG 6.1 International Conference, FMOODS 2012 and 32nd IFIP WG 6.1 International Conference, FORTE 2012, Stockholm, Sweden, June 13-16, 2012. Proceedings UR - http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-30793-5_1# N2 - We study in this paper the cost of making a concurrent programming language reversible. More specifically, we take an abstract machine for a fragment of the Oz programming language and make it reversible. We show that the overhead of the reversible machine with respect to the original one in terms of space is at most linear in the number of execution steps. We also show that this bound is tight since some programs cannot be made reversible without storing a commensurate amount of information. ER -