Relaxed visibility enhances partial order reduction

Doron Peled, Antti Valmari, Ilkka Kokkarinen

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Abstract

State-space explosion is a central problem in the automatic verification (model-checking) of concurrent systems. Partial order reduction is a method that was developed to try to cope with the state-space explosion. Based on the observation that the order of execution of concurrent (independent) atomic actions is in many cases unimportant for the checked property, it allows reducing the state space by exploring fewer execution sequences. However, in order to guarantee that the reduced state space preserves the correctness of the checked property, the partial order reductions put constraints about commuting the order of atomic actions that may change the value of propositions appearing in the checked specification. In this paper we relax this constraint, allowing a weaker requirement to be imposed, and thus achieving a better reduction. We demonstrate the benefits of our improved reduction with experimental results.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)275-289
Number of pages15
JournalFormal Methods in System Design
Volume19
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - Nov 2001
Externally publishedYes

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
The authors would like to thank an insightful discussion of this subject with Amir Pnueli and Pierre Wolper. The work of the third author was partially funded by the Academy of Finland.

Funding

The authors would like to thank an insightful discussion of this subject with Amir Pnueli and Pierre Wolper. The work of the third author was partially funded by the Academy of Finland.

FundersFunder number
Academy of Finland

    Keywords

    • Automatic verification
    • Model checking
    • Partial order reduction
    • State space explosion

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