Dynamic State Space Partitioning for External Memory Model Checking

Authors:
Sami Evangelista;Lars Michael Kristensen
Affiliations:
Computer Science Department, Aarhus University, Denmark;Department of Computer Engineering, Bergen University College, Norway
Venue:
FMICS '09 Proceedings of the 14th International Workshop on Formal Methods for Industrial Critical Systems
Year:
2009

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Abstract

We describe a dynamic partitioning scheme usable by model checking techniques that divide the state space into partitions, such as most external memory and distributed model checking algorithms. The goal of the scheme is to reduce the number of transitions that link states belonging to different partitions, and thereby limit the amount of disk access and network communication. We report on several experiments made with our verification platform ASAP that implements the dynamic partitioning scheme proposed in this paper.