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Functional programs typically interact with stateful libraries that hide state behind typed abstractions. One particularly important class of applications are data structure implementations that rely on such libraries to provide a level of…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2024-09-30 Zhe Zhou , Qianchuan Ye , Benjamin Delaware , Suresh Jagannathan

Due to the limitations of SCADE models in expressing and verifying abstract specifications in safety-critical systems, this study proposes a formal verification framework based on the B-Method. By establishing a semantic equivalence…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-05-05 Xili Hou , Keming Wang , Huibing Zhao , Ruiyin Shi

In Bounded Model Checking both the system model and the checked property are translated into a Boolean formula to be analyzed by a SAT-solver. We introduce a new encoding technique which is particularly optimized for managing quantitative…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-05-13 Matteo Pradella , Angelo Morzenti , Pierluigi San Pietro

Recent approaches to verifying programs in separation logics for concurrency have used state transition systems (STSs) to specify the atomic operations of programs. A key challenge in the setting has been to compose such STSs into larger…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2017-09-25 Aleksandar Nanevski , Anindya Banerjee , Germán Andrés Delbianco

The safety of infinite state systems can be checked by a backward reachability procedure. For certain classes of systems, it is possible to prove the termination of the procedure and hence conclude the decidability of the safety problem.…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Silvio Ghilardi , Silvio Ranise

In top-down multi-level design methodologies, design descriptions at higher levels of abstraction are incrementally refined to the final realizations. Simulation based techniques have traditionally been used to verify that such model…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-08-02 Salim Ismail Al-Akhras , Sofiène Tahar , Gabriela Nicolescu , Michel Langevin , Pierre Paulin

We present an SMT-based symbolic model checking algorithm for safety verification of recursive programs. The algorithm is modular and analyzes procedures individually. Unlike other SMT-based approaches, it maintains both "over-" and…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-05-27 Anvesh Komuravelli , Arie Gurfinkel , Sagar Chaki

Program verification is a resource-hungry task. This paper looks at the problem of parallelizing SMT-based automated program verification, specifically bounded model-checking, so that it can be distributed and executed on a cluster of…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Prantik Chatterjee , Subhajit Roy , Bui Phi Diep , Akash Lal

Programs that transform other programs often require access to the internal structure of the program to be transformed. This is at odds with the usual extensional view of functional programming, as embodied by the lambda calculus and SK…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2015-12-15 Martin Lester

This paper investigates approaches to parallelizing Bounded Model Checking (BMC) for shared memory environments as well as for clusters of workstations. We present a generic framework for parallelized BMC named Tarmo. Our framework can be…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2009-12-15 Siert Wieringa , Matti Niemenmaa , Keijo Heljanko

This paper introduces a tool for verifying Python programs, which, using type annotation and front-end processing, can harness the capabilities of a bounded model-checking (BMC) pipeline. It transforms an input program into an abstract…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Bruno Farias , Rafael Menezes , Eddie B. de Lima Filho , Youcheng Sun , Lucas C. Cordeiro

We propose a symbolic execution method for analyzing the safety of software under fault attacks both accurately and efficiently. Fault attacks leverage physically injected hardware faults in an embedded system to break the safety of a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Yuzhou Fang , Chenyu Zhou , Jingbo Wang , Chao Wang

Matlab/Simulink is a development and simulation language that is widely used by the Cyber-Physical System (CPS) industry to model dynamical systems. There are two mainstream approaches to verify CPS Simulink models: model testing that…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-05-10 Shiva Nejati , Khouloud Gaaloul , Claudio Menghi , Lionel C. Briand , Stephen Foster , David Wolfe

Statechart is a visual modelling language for systems. In this paper, we extend our earlier work on modular statecharts with local variables and present an updated operational semantics for statecharts with concurrency. Our variant of the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-07-12 Karthika Venkatesan , Sujit Kumar Chakrabarti

Statistical Model Checking (SMC) is a trade-off between testing and formal verification. The core idea of the approach is to conduct some simulations of the system and verify if they satisfy some given property. In this paper we show that…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2011-11-03 Peter Bulychev , Alexandre David , Kim Guldstrand Larsen , Marius Mikučionis , Axel Legay

This report details the translation and testing of multiple benchmarks, including the Six Vehicle Platoon, Two Bouncing Ball, Three Tank System, and Four-Dimensional Linear Switching, which represent continuous and hybrid systems. These…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-10 Yogesh Gajula , Ravi Varma Lingala

We introduce a new technique for inferring program invariants that uses symbolic states generated by symbolic execution. Symbolic states, which consist of path conditions and constraints on local variables, are a compact description of sets…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-03-29 ThanhVu Nguyen , Matthew B. Dwyer , Willem Visser

Model checking is a powerful technique for software verification. However, the approach notably suffers from the infamous state space explosion problem. To tackle this, in this paper, we introduce a novel symbolic method for encoding Petri…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Damien Morard , Lucas Donati , Didier Buchs

State-space exploration is an essential step in many modeling and analysis problems. Its goal is to find the states reachable from the initial state of a discrete-state model described. The state space can used to answer important…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2009-12-16 Gianfranco Ciardo , Yang Zhao , Xiaoqing Jin

The paper presents a methodology for temporal logic verification of continuous-time switched stochastic systems. Our goal is to find the lower bound on the probability that a complex temporal property is satisfied over a finite time…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Mahathi Anand , Pushpak Jagtap , Majid Zamani