A cut-off approach for bounded verification of parameterized systems
@article{Yang2010ACA,
title={A cut-off approach for bounded verification of parameterized systems},
author={Qiusong Yang and Mingshu Li},
journal={2010 ACM/IEEE 32nd International Conference on Software Engineering},
year={2010},
volume={1},
pages={345-354}
}The features in multi-threaded programs, such as recursion, dynamic creation and communication, pose a great challenge to formal verification. A widely adopted strategy is to verify tentatively a system with a smaller size, by limiting the depth of recursion or the number of replicated processes, to find errors without ensuring the full correctness. The model checking of parameterized systems, a parametric infinite family of systems, is to decide if a property holds in every size instance…
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