Proving the refuted: symbolic model checkers as proof generators

  • Authors:
  • Ittai Balaban;Amir Pnueli;Lenore D. Zuck

  • Affiliations:
  • WorldEvolved Services, New York;New York University, New York;University of Illinois at Chicago

  • Venue:
  • Concurrency, Compositionality, and Correctness
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

The paper presents an automatic method to derive a deductive proof of response properties from symbolic model checking. The method is based on a new proof rule for response properties that deals directly with compassion (strong fairness). The method can be applied to infinite-state systems. In particular, model checking of response of (predicate- and ranking-) abstracted heap programs is automatically transformed into a deductive proof for the concrete heap system. All examples presented in the paper were run in tlv.