Discovering invariants via simple component analysis

  • Authors:
  • Gianluca Amato;Maurizio Parton;Francesca Scozzari

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Symbolic Computation
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

We propose a new technique combining dynamic and static analysis of programs to find linear invariants. We use a statistical tool, called simple component analysis, to analyze partial execution traces of a given program. We get a new coordinate system in the vector space of program variables, which is used to specialize numerical abstract domains. As an application, we instantiate our technique to interval analysis of simple imperative programs and show some experimental evaluations.