Title
Deciding Entailments in Inductive Separation Logic with Tree Automata.
Abstract
Separation Logic (SL) with inductive definitions is a natural formalism for specifying complex recursive data structures, used in compositional verification of programs manipulating such structures. The key ingredient of any automated verification procedure based on SL is the decidability of the entailment problem. In this work, we reduce the entailment problem for a non-trivial subset of SL describing trees (and beyond) to the language inclusion of tree automata (TA). Our reduction provides tight complexity bounds for the problem and shows that entailment in our fragment is EXPTIME-complete. For practical purposes, we leverage from recent advances in automata theory, such as inclusion checking for non-deterministic TA avoiding explicit determinization. We implemented our method and present promising preliminary experimental results.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1007/978-3-319-11936-6_15
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
DocType
Volume
ISSN
Journal
8837
0302-9743
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
13
0.57
18
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Radu Iosif148342.44
Adam Rogalewicz21539.39
Tomás Vojnar313627.58