{"title":"Preface for the formal methods in system design special issue on ‘Formal Methods 2021’","authors":"Marieke Huisman, Corina S. Păsăreanu, Naijun Zhan","doi":"10.1007/s10703-023-00438-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10703-023-00438-7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":12430,"journal":{"name":"Formal Methods in System Design","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135894767","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Alessandro Cimatti, Alberto Griggio, Sergio Mover, Marco Roveri, Stefano Tonetta
{"title":"Verification modulo theories","authors":"Alessandro Cimatti, Alberto Griggio, Sergio Mover, Marco Roveri, Stefano Tonetta","doi":"10.1007/s10703-023-00434-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10703-023-00434-x","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In this paper, we consider the problem of model checking fair transition systems expressed symbolically in the framework of Satisfiability Modulo Theories. This problem, referred to as Verification Modulo Theories, is tackled by combining two key elements from the legacy of Ed Clarke: SAT-based verification and abstraction refinement. We show how fundamental SAT-based algorithms have been lifted to deal with the extended expressiveness with a tight integration of abstraction within a CEGAR loop. In turn, the case of nonlinear theories is based on a CEGAR loop over the linear case. These two elements have also deeply impacted the development of the NuSMV model checker, born from a joint project between FBK and CMU, and its successor nuXmv, whose core integrates SMT-based techniques for VMT.</p>","PeriodicalId":12430,"journal":{"name":"Formal Methods in System Design","volume":"212 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-09-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138539761","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Alessandro Cimatti, Alberto Griggio, Sergio Mover, Marco Roveri, Stefano Tonetta
{"title":"Verification modulo theories","authors":"Alessandro Cimatti, Alberto Griggio, Sergio Mover, Marco Roveri, Stefano Tonetta","doi":"10.1007/s10703-023-00434-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10703-023-00434-x","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In this paper, we consider the problem of model checking fair transition systems expressed symbolically in the framework of Satisfiability Modulo Theories. This problem, referred to as Verification Modulo Theories, is tackled by combining two key elements from the legacy of Ed Clarke: SAT-based verification and abstraction refinement. We show how fundamental SAT-based algorithms have been lifted to deal with the extended expressiveness with a tight integration of abstraction within a CEGAR loop. In turn, the case of nonlinear theories is based on a CEGAR loop over the linear case. These two elements have also deeply impacted the development of the NuSMV model checker, born from a joint project between FBK and CMU, and its successor nuXmv, whose core integrates SMT-based techniques for VMT.</p>","PeriodicalId":12430,"journal":{"name":"Formal Methods in System Design","volume":"212 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-09-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138539748","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Edmund Melson Clarke, Jr. (1945–2020)","authors":"Sicun Gao, Orna Grumberg, Paolo Zuliani","doi":"10.1007/s10703-023-00437-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10703-023-00437-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":12430,"journal":{"name":"Formal Methods in System Design","volume":"76 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134912355","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Enhancing active model learning with equivalence checking using simulation relations","authors":"Natasha Yogananda Jeppu, T. Melham, D. Kroening","doi":"10.1007/s10703-023-00433-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10703-023-00433-y","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":12430,"journal":{"name":"Formal Methods in System Design","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-08-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46706513","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Certified SAT solving with GPU accelerated inprocessing","authors":"M. Osama, Anton Wijs, Armin Biere","doi":"10.1007/s10703-023-00432-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10703-023-00432-z","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":12430,"journal":{"name":"Formal Methods in System Design","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-08-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46498825","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Concise outlines for a complex logic: a proof outline checker for TaDA","authors":"Felix A. Wolf, Malte Schwerhoff, Peter Müller","doi":"10.1007/s10703-023-00427-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10703-023-00427-w","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Modern separation logics allow one to prove rich properties of intricate code, e.g., functional correctness and linearizability of non-blocking concurrent code. However, this expressiveness leads to a complexity that makes these logics difficult to apply. Manual proofs or proofs in interactive theorem provers consist of a large number of steps, often with subtle side conditions. On the other hand, automation with dedicated verifiers typically requires sophisticated proof search algorithms that are specific to the given program logic, resulting in limited tool support that makes it difficult to experiment with program logics, e.g., when learning, improving, or comparing them. Proof outline checkers fill this gap. Their input is a program annotated with the most essential proof steps, just like the proof outlines typically presented in papers. The tool then checks automatically that this outline represents a valid proof in the program logic. In this paper, we systematically develop a proof outline checker for the TaDA logic, which reduces the checking to a simpler verification problem, for which automated tools exist. Our approach leads to proof outline checkers that provide substantially more automation than interactive provers, but are much simpler to develop than custom automatic verifiers.","PeriodicalId":12430,"journal":{"name":"Formal Methods in System Design","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135154480","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Florian Renkin, Philipp Schlehuber-Caissier, A. Duret-Lutz, Adrien Pommellet
{"title":"Dissecting ltlsynt","authors":"Florian Renkin, Philipp Schlehuber-Caissier, A. Duret-Lutz, Adrien Pommellet","doi":"10.1007/s10703-022-00407-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10703-022-00407-6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":12430,"journal":{"name":"Formal Methods in System Design","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43309901","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Round- and context-bounded control of dynamic pushdown systems","authors":"B. Bollig, Mathieu Lehaut, N. Sznajder","doi":"10.1007/s10703-023-00431-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10703-023-00431-0","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":12430,"journal":{"name":"Formal Methods in System Design","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-07-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43319758","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Symbolic encoding of LL(1) parsing and its applications","authors":"Pankaj Kumar Kalita, Dhruv Singal, Palak Agarwal, Saket Jhunjhunwala, Subhajit Roy","doi":"10.1007/s10703-023-00420-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10703-023-00420-3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":12430,"journal":{"name":"Formal Methods in System Design","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49049947","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}