Divide and Compose: SCC Refinement for Language Emptiness

  • Authors:
  • Chao Wang;Roderick Bloem;Gary D. Hachtel;Kavita Ravi;Fabio Somenzi

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • CONCUR '01 Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Concurrency Theory
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

We propose a refinement approach to symbolic SCC analysis, which performs large parts of the computation on abstracted systems, and on small subsets of the state space. For language-emptiness checking, it quickly discards uninteresting parts of the state space; for the remaining states, it adapts the model checking computation to the strength of the SCCs at hand. We present a general framework for SCC refinement, which uses a compositional approach to generate and refine overapproximations. We show that our algorithm significantly outperforms the one of Emerson and Lei.