A Compositional Sweep-Line State Space Exploration Method

  • Authors:
  • Lars Michael Kristensen;Thomas Mailund

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • FORTE '02 Proceedings of the 22nd IFIP WG 6.1 International Conference Houston on Formal Techniques for Networked and Distributed Systems
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

State space exploration is a main approach to verification of finite-state systems. The sweep-line method exploits a certain kind of progress present in many systems to reduce peak memory usage during state space exploration. We present a new sweep-line algorithm for a compositional setting where systems are composed of subsystems. The compositional setting makes it possible to divide subsystem progress measures into monotone and non-monotone progress measures to further reduce peak memory usage. We show that in a compositional setting, it is possible to automatically obtain a progress measure for the system by combining the progress measure for each subsystem to a progress measure for the full system.