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Monitoring modulo theories

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This paper considers a generic approach to runtime verification of temporal properties over first-order theories. This allows especially for the verification of multi-threaded, object-oriented systems. It presents a general framework lifting monitor synthesis procedures for propositional temporal logics to a temporal logic over structures within some first-order theory. To evaluate such specifications SMT solving and classical monitoring of propositional temporal properties are combined. The monitoring procedure was implemented for linear-time temporal logic based on the Z3 SMT solver and evaluated regarding runtime performance.

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  1. Project page: http://www.isp.uni-luebeck.de/junitrv.

  2. The benchmarks and corresponding implementation are available at http://www.isp.uni-luebeck.de/~thoma/junitrv-sttt14.zip.

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Decker, N., Leucker, M. & Thoma, D. Monitoring modulo theories. Int J Softw Tools Technol Transfer 18, 205–225 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10009-015-0380-3

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