Title
Finite Model Finding for Parameterized Verification
Abstract
In this paper we investigate to which extent a very simple and natural "reachability as deducibility" approach, originated in the research in formal methods in security, is applicable to the automated verification of large classes of infinite state and parameterized systems. The approach is based on modeling the reachability between (parameterized) states as deducibility between suitable encodings of states by formulas of first-order predicate logic. The verification of a safety property is reduced to a pure logical problem of finding a countermodel for a first-order formula. The later task is delegated then to the generic automated finite model building procedures. In this paper we first establish the relative completeness of the finite countermodel finding method (FCM) for a class of parameterized linear arrays of finite automata. The method is shown to be at least as powerful as known methods based on monotonic abstraction and symbolic backward reachability. Further, we extend the relative completeness of the approach and show that it can solve all safety verification problems which can be solved by the traditional regular model checking.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2010
Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research
formal method,finite automata,model building,first order,model checking
Field
DocType
Volume
Discrete mathematics,Parameterized complexity,Model checking,Model building,Algorithm,Finite-state machine,Reachability,Theoretical computer science,Formal methods,Predicate logic,Completeness (statistics),Mathematics
Journal
abs/1011.0
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
3
0.44
9
Authors
1
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Alexei Lisitsa127245.94