Reminder: POPL Practice Talk

From: Ranjit Jhala (jhala@ic.eecs.berkeley.edu)
Date: 01/11/02


Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 12:54:32 -0800 (PST)
From: Ranjit Jhala <jhala@ic.eecs.berkeley.edu>
Subject: Reminder: POPL Practice Talk
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0201111253310.1752-100000@edalap09.eecs.berkeley.edu>

A gentle reminder: 
	today at 2 pm. 380 Soda.
	Thanks!
-Ranjit.

> Hi,
> 	I am giving a practice talk for POPL (different from Zhendong's 
> ...) on "Lazy Abstraction" on:
> 	 Friday 11th Jan, Soda 380, at 2:00 Pm.
> 	I guess some of you've heard this before but I'd really appreciate 
> it if you could come down and give me some feedback.
> 	Thanks!
> 	-Ranjit Jhala.
> 
> Abstract:
> One approach to model checking software is based on the
>    abstract-check-refine paradigm: build an abstract model, then check
>    the desired property, and if the check fails, refine the model and
>    start over. We introduce the concept of lazy abstraction to integrate
>    and optimize the three phases of the abstract-check-refine loop. Lazy
>    abstraction continuously builds and refines a single abstract model on
>    demand, driven by the model checker, so that different parts of the
>    model may exhibit different degrees of precision, namely just enough
>    to verify the desired property. We present an algorithm for model
>    checking safety properties using lazy abstraction and describe an
>    implementation of the algorithm applied to C programs. We also give an
>    abstract characterization of the infinite-state systems for which the
>    algorithm finds a safety-witnessing finite-state model whenever such a
>    model exists.
> 
> Tom Henzinger, Ranjit Jhala, Rupak Majumdar, Gregoire Sutre.
> 
> 
> 



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