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Goal-Directed Invariant Synthesis for Model Checking Modulo Theories

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We are interested in automatically proving safety properties of infinite state systems. We present a technique for invariant synthesis which can be incorporated in backward reachability analysis. The main theoretical result ensures that (under suitable hypotheses) our method is guaranteed to find an invariant if one exists. We also discuss heuristics that allow us to derive an implementation of the technique showing remarkable speed-ups on a significant set of safety problems in parametrised systems.

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  1. Dipartimento di Informatica, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy

    Silvio Ghilardi

  2. Dipartimento di Informatica, Università di Verona, Italy

    Silvio Ranise

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Ghilardi, S., Ranise, S. (2009). Goal-Directed Invariant Synthesis for Model Checking Modulo Theories . In: Giese, M., Waaler, A. (eds) Automated Reasoning with Analytic Tableaux and Related Methods. TABLEAUX 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5607. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02716-1_14

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