ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)
Automatic generation of functional vectors using the extended finite state machine model
ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems (TODAES)
Verification techniques for cache coherence protocols
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
Handbook of Automated Reasoning: Volume 1
Handbook of Automated Reasoning: Volume 1
Verification of Consistency Protocols via Infinite-Stae Symbolic Model Checking
FORTE/PSTV 2000 Proceedings of the FIP TC6 WG6.1 Joint International Conference on Formal Description Techniques for Distributed Systems and Communication Protocols (FORTE XIII) and Protocol Specification, Testing and Verification (PSTV XX)
On the Verification of Broadcast Protocols
LICS '99 Proceedings of the 14th Annual IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science
Constraint-Based Verification of Parameterized Cache Coherence Protocols
Formal Methods in System Design
Inductively Verifying Invariant Properties of Parameterized Systems
Automated Software Engineering
Journal of Automated Reasoning
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We propose a simple and efficient approach to the verification of parameterized and infinite state system. The approach is based on modeling the reachability relation between parameterized states as deducibility between suitable encodings of the states using formulae of first-order logic. To establish a safety property, namely the non-reachability of unsafe states, a finite model finder is used to generate a finite countermodel, thus providing the witness for nondeducibility. We show that under an appropriate encoding the combination of finite model finding and theorem proving provides us with a decision procedure for the safety of the lossy channel systems. We illustrate the approach by reporting on experiments verifying both alternating bit protocol (specified as a lossy channel system) and a number of parameterized cache coherence protocols specified by extended finite state machines. In these experiments, the finite model finder Mace4 is used.