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Reachability in Parameterized Systems: All Flavors of Threshold Automata

Authors Jure Kukovec, Igor Konnov , Josef Widder

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  • Software and its engineering → Software verification
  • Theory of computation → Logic and verification
  • Software and its engineering → Software fault tolerance
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  • threshold & counter automata
  • parameterized verification
  • reachability

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Abstract

Threshold automata, and the counter systems they define, were introduced as a framework for parameterized model checking of fault-tolerant distributed algorithms. This application domain suggested natural constraints on the automata structure, and a specific form of acceleration, called single-rule acceleration: consecutive occurrences of the same automaton rule are executed as a single transition in the counter system. These accelerated systems have bounded diameter, and can be verified in a complete manner with bounded model checking.
We go beyond the original domain, and investigate extensions of threshold automata: non-linear guards, increments and decrements of shared variables, increments of shared variables within loops, etc., and show that the bounded diameter property holds for several extensions. Finally, we put single-rule acceleration in the scope of flat counter automata: although increments in loops may break the bounded diameter property, the corresponding counter automaton is flattable, and reachability can be verified using more permissive forms of acceleration.

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Jure Kukovec, Igor Konnov, and Josef Widder. Reachability in Parameterized Systems: All Flavors of Threshold Automata. In 29th International Conference on Concurrency Theory (CONCUR 2018). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 118, pp. 19:1-19:17, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2018) https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.CONCUR.2018.19

Author Details

Jure Kukovec
  • TU Wien, Favoritenstraße 9 - 11, 1040 Vienna, Austria
Igor Konnov
  • University of Lorraine, CNRS, Inria, LORIA, F-54000 Nancy, France
Josef Widder
  • TU Wien, Favoritenstraße 9 - 11, 1040 Vienna, Austria

Funding

Supported by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) via the National Research Network RiSE (S11403, S11405), project PRAVDA (P27722), and Doctoral College LogiCS (W1255-N23); and by the Vienna Science and Technology Fund (WWTF) via project APALACHE (ICT15-103).

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