Automated termination in model checking modulo theories

  • Authors:
  • Alessandro Carioni;Silvio Ghilardi;Silvio Ranise

  • Affiliations:
  • Università degli Studi di Milano, Milano, Italia;Università degli Studi di Milano, Milano, Italia;FBK, Irst, Trento, Italia

  • Venue:
  • RP'11 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Reachability problems
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

We use a declarative SMT-based approach to model-checking of infinite state systems to design a procedure for automatically establishing the termination of backward reachability by using well-quasi-orderings. Besides showing that our procedure succeeds in many instances of problems covered by general termination results, we argue that it could predict termination also on single problems outside the scope of applicability of such general results.