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Compositional Entailment Checking for a Fragment of Separation Logic

ENEA Constantin, LENGÁL Ondřej, SIGHIREANU Mihaela and VOJNAR Tomáš. Compositional Entailment Checking for a Fragment of Separation Logic. In: Proceedings of APLAS'14. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 8858. Heidelberg: Springer Verlag, 2014, pp. 314-333. ISBN 978-3-319-12735-4.
Czech title
Kompozitní testování implikace pro fragment separační logiky
Type
conference paper
Language
english
Authors
Enea Constantin (LIAFA UP7/CNRS)
Lengál Ondřej, Ing., Ph.D. (DITS FIT BUT)
Sighireanu Mihaela (LIAFA UP7/CNRS)
Vojnar Tomáš, prof. Ing., Ph.D. (DITS FIT BUT)
Keywords


program verification, decision procedures, separation logic, tree automata

Abstract

We present a (semi-)decision procedure for checking entailment between separation logic formulas with inductive predicates specifying complex data structures corresponding to finite nesting of various kinds of linked lists: acyclic or cyclic, singly or doubly linked, skip lists, etc. The decision procedure is compositional in the sense that it reduces the problem of checking entailment between two arbitrary formulas to the problem of checking entailment between a formula and an atom. Subsequently, in case the atom is a predicate, we reduce the entailment to testing membership of a tree derived from the formula in the language of a tree automaton derived from the predicate. We implemented this decision procedure and tested it successfully on verification conditions obtained from programs using singly and doubly linked nested lists as well as skip lists.

Published
2014
Pages
314-333
Proceedings
Proceedings of APLAS'14
Series
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume
8858
Conference
12th Asian Symposium on Programming Languages and Systems -- APLAS'14, Singapore, SG
ISBN
978-3-319-12735-4
Publisher
Springer Verlag
Place
Heidelberg, DE
EID Scopus
2-s2.0-84910017407
BibTeX 
@INPROCEEDINGS{FITPUB10701,
   author = "Constantin Enea and Ond\v{r}ej Leng\'{a}l and Mihaela Sighireanu and Tom\'{a}\v{s} Vojnar",
   title = "Compositional Entailment Checking for a Fragment of Separation Logic",
   pages = "314--333",
   booktitle = "Proceedings of APLAS'14",
   series = "Lecture Notes in Computer Science",
   volume = 8858,
   year = 2014,
   location = "Heidelberg, DE",
   publisher = "Springer Verlag",
   ISBN = "978-3-319-12735-4",
   language = "english",
   url = "https://www.fit.vut.cz/research/publication/10701"
}
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