Molnár, Vince and Vörös, András and Darvas, Dániel and Bartha, Tamás and Majzik, István (2016) Component-wise incremental LTL model checking. FORMAL ASPECTS OF COMPUTING, 28 (3). pp. 345-379. ISSN 0934-5043 10.1007/s00165-015-0347-x

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Abstract

Efficient symbolic and explicit-state model checking approaches have been developed for the verification of linear time temporal logic (LTL) properties. Several attempts have been made to combine the advantages of the various algorithms. Model checking LTL properties usually poses two challenges: one must compute the synchronous product of the state space and the automaton model of the desired property, then look for counterexamples that is reduced to finding strongly connected components (SCCs) in the state space of the product. In case of concurrent systems, where the phenomenon of state space explosion often prevents the successful verification, the so-called saturation algorithm has proved its efficiency in state space exploration. This paper proposes a new approach that leverages the saturation algorithm both as an iteration strategy constructing the product directly, as well as in a new fixed-point computation algorithm to find strongly connected components on-the-fly by incrementally processing the components of the model. Complementing the search for SCCs, explicit techniques and component-wise abstractions are used to prove the absence of counterexamples. The resulting on-the-fly, incremental LTL model checking algorithm proved to scale well with the size of models, as the evaluation on models of the Model Checking Contest suggests.

Item Type:	Article
Subjects:	Q Science > QA Mathematics and Computer Science > QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science / számítástechnika, számítógéptudomány
Divisions:	Systems and Control Lab
SWORD Depositor:	MTMT Injector
Depositing User:	MTMT Injector
Date Deposited:	17 Jan 2017 08:42
Last Modified:	21 Jul 2019 14:09
URI:	https://eprints.sztaki.hu/id/eprint/8941

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