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Improving Non-Progress Cycle Checks

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Improving Non-Progress Cycle Checks
This paper introduces a new model checking algorithm that searches for non-progress cycles, used mainly to check for livelocks. The algorithm performs an incremental depth-first search, i.e., it searches through the graph incrementally deeper. It simultaneously constructs the state space and searches for non-progress cycles. The algorithm is more efficient than the method the model checker SPIN currently uses, and finds shortest (w.r.t. progress) counterexamples. Its only downside is the need for a subsequent reachability depth-first search (which is not the bottleneck) for constructing a full counterexample. The new algorithm is better combinable with partial order reduction than SPIN’s method. Key words: Model Checking, SPIN, Non-progress cycles, livelocks, depthfirst search, partial order reduction.
David Faragó, Peter H. Schmitt
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Updated 27 May 2010
Type Conference
Year 2009
Where SPIN
Authors David Faragó, Peter H. Schmitt
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