Uppsala University Department of Information Technology

Technical Report 2010-015

Constrained Monotonic Abstraction: a CEGAR for Parameterized Verification

Parosh Aziz Abdulla, Yu-Fang Chen, Giorgio Delzanno, Frédéric Haziza, Chih-Duo Hong, and Ahmed Rezine

June 2010

Abstract:
In this paper, we develop a counterexample-guided abstraction refinement (CEGAR) framework for monotonic abstraction, an approach that is particularly useful in automatic verification of safety properties for parameterized systems. The main drawback of verification using monotonic abstraction is that it sometimes generates spurious counterexamples. Our CEGAR algorithm automatically extracts from each spurious counterexample a set of configurations called a "Safety Zone" and uses it to refine the abstract transition system of the next iteration. We have developed a prototype based on this idea; and our experimentation shows that the approach allows to verify many of the examples that cannot be handled by the original monotonic abstraction approach.

Available as PDF (323 kB, no cover)

Download BibTeX entry.



Uppsala Universitet