Counterexample-Guided Prophecy for Model Checking Modulo the Theory of Arrays [chapter]

Makai Mann, Ahmed Irfan, Alberto Griggio, Oded Padon, Clark Barrett
2021 Lecture Notes in Computer Science  
AbstractWe develop a framework for model checking infinite-state systems by automatically augmenting them with auxiliary variables, enabling quantifier-free induction proofs for systems that would otherwise require quantified invariants. We combine this mechanism with a counterexample-guided abstraction refinement scheme for the theory of arrays. Our framework can thus, in many cases, reduce inductive reasoning with quantifiers and arrays to quantifier-free and array-free reasoning. We evaluate
more » ... the approach on a wide set of benchmarks from the literature. The results show that our implementation often outperforms state-of-the-art tools, demonstrating its practical potential.
doi:10.1007/978-3-030-72016-2_7 fatcat:ntdopa3z4nd5rk4c4jc6opyzha