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Programs with Lists are Counter Automata

IOSIF, R.; HABERMEHL, P.; VOJNAR, T.; BOUAJJANI, A.; BOZGA, M.; MORO, P. Programs with Lists are Counter Automata. Computer Aided Verification. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin: Springer Verlag, 2006. p. 517-531. ISBN: 978-3-540-37406-0.
Czech title
Programy nad seznamy jsou čítačové automaty
Type
conference paper
Language
English
Authors
Radu Iosif
Habermehl Peter
Vojnar Tomáš, prof. Ing., Ph.D. (DITS)
Bouajjani Ahmed
Bozga Marius
Moro Pierre
Keywords

formal verification, model checking, programs with linked lists, counter automata, bisimulation

Abstract

We address the verification problem of programs manipulatingone-selector linked data structures. We propose a new automatedapproach for checking safety and termination for these programs. Ourapproach is based on using counter automata as accurate abstractmodels: control states correspond to abstract heap graphs where listsegments without sharing are collapsed, and counters are used to keeptrack of the number of elements in these segments. This allows to applyautomatic analysis techniques and tools for counter automata in orderto verify list programs. We show the effectiveness of our approach, inparticular by verifying automatically termination of some sortingprograms.

Published
2006
Pages
517–531
Proceedings
Computer Aided Verification
Series
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume
4144
Conference
The 2006 Federated Logic Conference -- FLoC'06 / 18th International Conference on Computer-Aided Verification -- CAV'06, Seattle, Washington, US
ISBN
978-3-540-37406-0
Publisher
Springer Verlag
Place
Berlin
BibTeX 
@inproceedings{BUT34272,
  author="Iosif {Radu} and Peter {Habermehl} and Tomáš {Vojnar} and Ahmed {Bouajjani} and Marius {Bozga} and Pierre {Moro}",
  title="Programs with Lists are Counter Automata",
  booktitle="Computer Aided Verification",
  year="2006",
  series="Lecture Notes in Computer Science",
  volume="4144",
  pages="517--531",
  publisher="Springer Verlag",
  address="Berlin",
  isbn="978-3-540-37406-0"
}
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