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Abstract Diagnosis for tccp using a Linear Temporal Logic

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 July 2014

MARCO COMINI ,
LAURA TITOLO  and
ALICIA VILLANUEVA
MARCO COMINI
Affiliation:
DIMI, Università degli Studi di Udine, Italy (e-mail: marco.comini@uniud.it)
LAURA TITOLO
Affiliation:
DIMI, Università degli Studi di Udine, Italy (e-mail: marco.comini@uniud.it)
ALICIA VILLANUEVA
Affiliation:
DSIC, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain (e-mail: villanue@dsic.upv.es)
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Abstract

Automatic techniques for program verification usually suffer the well-known state explosion problem. Most of the classical approaches are based on browsing the structure of some form of model (which represents the behavior of the program) to check if a given specification is valid. This implies that a part of the model has to be built, and sometimes the needed fragment is quite huge.

In this work, we provide an alternative automatic decision method to check whether a given property, specified in a linear temporal logic, is valid w.r.t. a tccp program. Our proposal (based on abstract interpretation techniques) does not require to build any model at all. Our results guarantee correctness but, as usual when using an abstract semantics, completeness is lost.

Keywords

concurrent constraint paradigmlinear temporal logicabstract diagnosisdecision proceduresprogram verification
Type
Regular Papers
Information
Theory and Practice of Logic Programming , Volume 14 , Special Issue 4-5: 30th International Conference on Logic Programming , July 2014 , pp. 787 - 801
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2014 

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