Publication detail

Pattern-Based Verification of Programs with Extended Linear Linked Data Structures

VOJNAR, T. ČEŠKA, M. ERLEBACH, P.

Original Title

Pattern-Based Verification of Programs with Extended Linear Linked Data Structures

Type

journal article - other

Language

English

Original Abstract

The paper deals with the problem of automatic verification of programs with dynamic linked data structures. In particular, the use of pattern-based abstraction of memory configurations is considered. In this approach, one can abstract memory configurations by abstracting away the exact number of adjacent occurrences of certain memory patterns. The paper extends the state-of-the-art in this area by proposing a fully automatic and efficient way of  detecting the memory patterns to be used from the memory  configurations that the program at hand is generating. The method targets programs manipulating a broad class of extended linear linked data structures having a linear skeleton (possibly bidirectionally-linked or cyclic) with certain additional pointers defined on top of it, which covers many practical dynamic data structures (such as lists, doubly-linked lists, cyclic lists, lists with tail/head pointers, etc.). The experimental results obtained from a prototype implementation of the method show that the method is very competitive and offers a big potential for future extensions.

Keywords

formal verification, program analysis, dynamic linked data structures

Authors

VOJNAR, T.; ČEŠKA, M.; ERLEBACH, P.

RIV year

2006

Released

14. 1. 2006

ISBN

1571-0661

Periodical

ELECTRONIC NOTES IN THEORETICAL COMPUTER SCIENCE

Year of study

2006

Number

145

State

United States of America

Pages from

113

Pages to

130

Pages count

18

URL

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=MImg&_imagekey=B75H1-4J05Y67-8-1&_cdi=13109&_user=640830&_orig=browse&_coverDate=01%2F14%2F2006&_sk=998549999&view=c&wchp=dGLzVlz-zSkzk&md5=ee9d2a952a112f8b99ffd4cff37e35cd&ie=/sdarticle.pdf

BibTex

@article{BUT45072,
  author="Tomáš {Vojnar} and Milan {Češka} and Pavel {Erlebach}",
  title="Pattern-Based Verification of Programs with Extended Linear Linked Data Structures",
  journal="ELECTRONIC NOTES IN THEORETICAL COMPUTER SCIENCE",
  year="2006",
  volume="2006",
  number="145",
  pages="113--130",
  issn="1571-0661",
  url="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=MImg&_imagekey=B75H1-4J05Y67-8-1&_cdi=13109&_user=640830&_orig=browse&_coverDate=01%2F14%2F2006&_sk=998549999&view=c&wchp=dGLzVlz-zSkzk&md5=ee9d2a952a112f8b99ffd4cff37e35cd&ie=/sdarticle.pdf"
}