Synthesizing invariants by solving solvable loops

Steven de Oliveira, Saddek Bensalem, Virgile Prevosto

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Abstract

Formal program verification faces two problems. The first problem is related to the necessity of having automated solvers that are powerful enough to decide whether a formula holds for a set of proof obligations as large as possible, whereas the second manifests in the need of finding sufficiently strong invariants to obtain correct proof obligations. This paper focuses on the second problem and describes a new method for the automatic generation of loop invariants that handles polynomial and non deterministic assignments. This technique is based on the eigenvector generation for a given linear transformation and on the polynomial optimization problem, which we implemented on top of the open-source tool Pilat.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAutomated Technology for Verification and Analysis - 15th International Symposium, ATVA 2017, Proceedings
EditorsDeepak D’Souza, K. Narayan Kumar
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages327-343
Number of pages17
ISBN (Print)9783319681665
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jan 2017
Externally publishedYes
Event15th International Conference on Automated Technology for Verification and Analysis, ATVA 2017 - Pune, India
Duration: 3 Oct 20176 Oct 2017

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume10482 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference15th International Conference on Automated Technology for Verification and Analysis, ATVA 2017
Country/TerritoryIndia
CityPune
Period3/10/176/10/17

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