Narrowing and heuristic search for symbolic reachability analysis of concurrent object-oriented systems

A concurrent system specified as a rewrite theory can be analyzed symbolically using narrowing-based reachability analysis. Narrowing-based approaches have been applied to formally analyze cryptographic protocols and parameterized protocols. However, existing narrowing-based analysis methods, based...

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Vydáno v:Science of computer programming Ročník 235; s. 103097
Hlavní autoři: Kang, Byeongjee, Bae, Kyungmin
Médium: Journal Article
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: Elsevier B.V 01.07.2024
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ISSN:0167-6423, 1872-7964
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Shrnutí:A concurrent system specified as a rewrite theory can be analyzed symbolically using narrowing-based reachability analysis. Narrowing-based approaches have been applied to formally analyze cryptographic protocols and parameterized protocols. However, existing narrowing-based analysis methods, based on a breadth-first-search strategy, cannot deal with generic distributed systems with objects and messages due to the symbolic state-space explosion problem and implicit constraints imposed on object-oriented systems. This paper proposes a heuristic search approach for narrowing-based reachability analysis to guide the search for counterexamples with a small number of objects. As a result, our method can effectively find a counterexample if an error state is reachable. In addition, this paper also shows how to encode implicit object-oriented constraints using order-sorted signatures and equational constraints. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our technique using a nontrivial distributed consensus algorithm.
ISSN:0167-6423
1872-7964
DOI:10.1016/j.scico.2024.103097