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Jan Hoffmann
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Being a fully automated technique for resource analysis, automatic amortized resource analysis (AARA) can fail in returning worst-case cost bounds of programs, fundamentally due to the undecidability of resource analysis. For programmers who are unfamiliar with the technical details of AARA, it is difficult to predict whether a program can be successfully analyzed in AARA. Motivated by this problem, this article identifies classes of programs that can be analyzed in type-based polynomial AARA. Firstly, it is shown that the set of functions that are typable in univariate polynomial AARA coincides with the complexity class PTime. Secondly, the article presents a sufficient condition for typability that axiomatically requires every sub-expression of a given program to be polynomial-time. It is proved that this condition implies typability in multivariate polynomial AARA under some syntactic restrictions.
@InProceedings{pham_et_al:LIPIcs.CSL.2021.34,
author = {Pham, Long and Hoffmann, Jan},
title = {{Typable Fragments of Polynomial Automatic Amortized Resource Analysis}},
booktitle = {29th EACSL Annual Conference on Computer Science Logic (CSL 2021)},
pages = {34:1--34:19},
series = {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
ISBN = {978-3-95977-175-7},
ISSN = {1868-8969},
year = {2021},
volume = {183},
editor = {Baier, Christel and Goubault-Larrecq, Jean},
publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
address = {Dagstuhl, Germany},
URL = {https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.CSL.2021.34},
URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-134681},
doi = {10.4230/LIPIcs.CSL.2021.34},
annote = {Keywords: Resource consumption, Quantitative analysis, Amortized analysis, Typability}
}