Publication detail

Counterexample Validation and Interpolation-Based Refinement for Forest Automata

HOLÍK, L. HRUŠKA, M. LENGÁL, O. ROGALEWICZ, A. VOJNAR, T.

Original Title

Counterexample Validation and Interpolation-Based Refinement for Forest Automata

Type

conference paper

Language

English

Original Abstract

In the context of shape analysis, counterexample validation and abstraction refinement are complex and so far not sufficiently resolved problems. We provide a novel solution to both of these problems in the context of fully automated and rather general shape analysis based on forest automata. Our approach is based on backward symbolic execution on forest automata, allowing one to derive automata-based interpolants and refine the automata abstraction used. The approach allows one to distinguish true and spurious counterexamples and guarantees progress of the abstraction refinement. We have implemented the approach in the FORESTER tool and present promising experimental results.

Keywords

program analysis, shape analysis, counterexample validation, abstraction refinement, forest automata, tree automata

Authors

HOLÍK, L.; HRUŠKA, M.; LENGÁL, O.; ROGALEWICZ, A.; VOJNAR, T.

Released

17. 1. 2017

Publisher

Springer Verlag

Location

Cham

ISBN

978-3-319-52234-0

Book

Proceedings of VMCAI'17

Edition

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

ISBN

0302-9743

Periodical

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

Year of study

10145

State

Federal Republic of Germany

Pages from

288

Pages to

309

Pages count

22

URL

http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-52234-0_16

BibTex

@inproceedings{BUT133502,
  author="Lukáš {Holík} and Martin {Hruška} and Ondřej {Lengál} and Adam {Rogalewicz} and Tomáš {Vojnar}",
  title="Counterexample Validation and Interpolation-Based Refinement for Forest Automata",
  booktitle="Proceedings of VMCAI'17",
  year="2017",
  series="Lecture Notes in Computer Science",
  journal="Lecture Notes in Computer Science",
  volume="10145",
  pages="288--309",
  publisher="Springer Verlag",
  address="Cham",
  doi="10.1007/978-3-319-52234-0\{_}16",
  isbn="978-3-319-52234-0",
  issn="0302-9743",
  url="http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-52234-0_16"
}

Documents

forester-refinement.pdf