Title
Bounded model checking for weak alternating büchi automata
Abstract
We present an incremental bounded model checking encoding into propositional satisfiability where the property specification is expressed as a weak alternating Büchi automaton (WABA). The encoding is linear in the specification, or, more exactly ${\mathcal O}(\arrowvert I \arrowvert + k \cdot \arrowvert T \arrowvert + k \cdot \arrowvert \delta \arrowvert)$, where $\arrowvert I \arrowvert$ is the size of the initial state predicate, k is the bound, $\arrowvert T \arrowvert$ is the size of the transition relation, and $\arrowvert \delta \arrowvert$ is the size of the WABA transition relation. Minimal length counterexamples can also be found by increasing the encoding size to be quadratic in the number of states in the largest component of the WABA. The proposed encoding can be used to implement more efficient bounded model checking algorithms for ω-regular industrial specification languages such as Accellera's Property Specification Language (PSL). Encouraging experimental results on a prototype implementation are reported.
Year
DOI
Venue
2006
10.1007/11817963_12
CAV
Keywords
Field
DocType
property specification,proposed encoding,transition relation,waba transition relation,encoding size,incremental bounded model checking,regular industrial specification language,chi automaton,property specification language,efficient bounded model checking,specification language
Model checking,Computer science,Satisfiability,Algorithm,Propositional calculus,Property Specification Language,Theoretical computer science,Regular language,Counterexample,Büchi automaton,Bounded function
Conference
Volume
ISSN
ISBN
4144
0302-9743
3-540-37406-X
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
12
0.69
15
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Keijo Heljanko175147.90
Tommi Junttila245030.54
Misa Keinänen3383.59
Martin Lange41119.54
Timo Latvala535318.21