Automating cut-off for multi-parameterized systems

  • Authors:
  • Youssef Hanna;David Samuelson;Samik Basu;Hridesh Rajan

  • Affiliations:
  • Computer Science, Iowa State University, Ames, IA;Computer Science, Iowa State University, Ames, IA;Computer Science, Iowa State University, Ames, IA;Computer Science, Iowa State University, Ames, IA

  • Venue:
  • ICFEM'10 Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Formal engineering methods and software engineering
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Verifying that a parameterized system satisfies certain desired properties amounts to verifying an infinite family of the system instances. This problem is undecidable in general, and as such a number of sound and incomplete techniques have been proposed to address it. Existing techniques typically focus on parameterized systems with a single parameter, (i.e., on systems where the number of processes of exactly one type is dependent on the parameter); however, many systems in practice are multi-parameterized, where multiple parameters are used to specify the number of different types of processes in the system. In this work, we present an automatic verification technique for multiparameterized systems, prove its soundness and show that it can be applied to systems irrespective of their communication topology. We present a prototype realization of our technique in our tool Golok, and demonstrate its practical applicability using a number of multi-parameterized systems.