Limits for automatic verification of finite-state concurrent systems
Information Processing Letters
Reasoning about systems with many processes
Journal of the ACM (JACM)
The cache memory book
Automatic generation of functional vectors using the extended finite state machine model
ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems (TODAES)
Ensuring completeness of symbolic verification methods for infinite-state systems
Theoretical Computer Science
Automatic Verification of Parameterized Cache Coherence Protocols
CAV '00 Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Computer Aided Verification
General decidability theorems for infinite-state systems
LICS '96 Proceedings of the 11th Annual IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science
On Model Checking for Non-Deterministic Infinite-State Systems
LICS '98 Proceedings of the 13th Annual IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science
On the Verification of Broadcast Protocols
LICS '99 Proceedings of the 14th Annual IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science
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With the purpose of making the verification of parameterized system more general and easier, in this paper, a new and intuitive language PSL (Parameterized-system Specification Language) is proposed to specify a class of parameterized synchronous systems. From a PSL script, an automatic method is proposed to generate a constraint-based symbolic model. The model can concisely symbolically represent the collections of global states by counting the number of processes in a given state. Moreover, a theorem has been proved that there is a simulation relation between the original system and its symbolic model. Since the abstract and symbolic techniques are exploited in the symbolic model, state-explosion problem in traditional verification methods is efficiently avoided. Based on the proposed symbolic model, a reachability analysis procedure is implemented using ANSI C++ on UNIX platform. Thus, a complete tool for verifying the parameterized synchronous systems is obtained and tested for some cases. The experimental results show that the method is satisfactory.