A Decidable Fragment in Separation Logic with Inductive Predicates and Arithmetic

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TitleA Decidable Fragment in Separation Logic with Inductive Predicates and Arithmetic
AuthorsQuang Loc Le; Makoto Tatsuta; Jun Sun; Wei-Ngan Chin
Typeconference paper
Year2017
Citekeyle2017decidable

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Published inComputer Aided Verification
PublisherSpringer
Pages495--517

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DOI10.1007/978-3-319-63390-9_26
OpenAlexW2613252377

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Free full texthttps://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/4702

Abstract

We consider the satisfiability problem for a fragment of separation logic including inductive predicates with shape and arithmetic properties. We show that the fragment is decidable if the arithmetic properties can be represented as semilinear sets. Our decision procedure is based on a novel algorithm to infer a finite representation for each inductive predicate which precisely characterises its satisfiability. Our analysis shows that the proposed algorithm runs in exponential time in the worst case. We have implemented our decision procedure and integrated it into an existing verification system. Our experiment on benchmarks shows that our procedure helps to verify the benchmarks effectively.

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@inproceedings{le2017decidable,
  title = {A Decidable Fragment in Separation Logic with Inductive Predicates and Arithmetic},
  author = {Quang Loc Le and Makoto Tatsuta and Jun Sun and Wei-Ngan Chin},
  year = {2017},
  booktitle = {Computer Aided Verification},
  pages = {495--517},
  publisher = {Springer},
  doi = {10.1007/978-3-319-63390-9_26},
  url = {https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/4702},
}

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