Weighted dynamic pushdown networks

  • Authors:
  • Alexander Wenner

  • Affiliations:
  • Institut für Informatik, Fachbereich Mathematik und Informatik, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster

  • Venue:
  • ESOP'10 Proceedings of the 19th European conference on Programming Languages and Systems
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

We develop a generic framework for the analysis of programs with recursive procedures and dynamic process creation. To this end we combine the approach of weighted pushdown systems (WPDS) with the model of dynamic pushdown networks (DPN). The resulting model, weighted dynamic pushdown networks (WDPN), describes processes running in parallel, each of them being able to perform pushdown actions, that may spawn new processes as a side effect. As with WPDS, transitions are labelled by weights to carry additional information. Starting from techniques for WPDS and DPN, we derive a method to determine meet-over-all-paths values for the paths between regular sets of configurations of a WDPN. Using this method we are able to solve basic dataflow analysis problems in a parallel context.