Technical Report TR-2006-02

BibliographyEsparza, Javier; Kiefer, Stefan; Schwoon, Stefan: Abstraction Refinement with Craig Interpolation and Symbolic Pushdown Systems.
University of Stuttgart, Faculty of Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, and Information Technology, Technical Report Computer Science No. 2006/02.
21 pages, english.
CR-SchemaD.2.4 (Software Engineering Software/Program Verification)
F.3.1 (Specifying and Verifying and Reasoning about Programs)
Keywordscounterexample-guided abstraction refinement; pushdown systems; Craig interpolation
Abstract

Counterexample-guided abstraction refinement (CEGAR) has proven to be a powerful method for software model-checking. In this paper, we investigate this concept in the context of sequential (possibly recursive) programs whose statements are given as BDDs. We examine how Craig interpolants can be computed efficiently in this case and propose a new, special type of interpolants. Moreover, we show how to treat multiple counterexamples in one refinement cycle. We have implemented this approach within the model-checker Moped and report on experiments.

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Department(s)University of Stuttgart, Institute of Formal Methods in Computer Science, Software Reliability and Security
Entry dateJanuary 23, 2006
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