A formal nethod (a networked formal method)

  • Authors:
  • Peter T. Breuer;Simon Pickin

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK;Depto. Ing. Telemática, Universidad Carlos III, Leganés, Spain

  • Venue:
  • Innovations in Systems and Software Engineering
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

A year-long trial has seen a large lightweight verification problem treated by an ad hoc distributed network of identical solvers. The trialled problem is the semantic analysis of the C code in the Linux kernel to exclude a common deadlock possibility. The aim of the programme behind the experiment is to develop a viable loosely coupled distributed formal method which a community of interested part-time helpers on the net can lend their computing cycles to as they will, or send their own verification problems to for solving.