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State space exploration based on abstraction and refinement has been the cornerstone of several successful software verification tools from the last decade. While these tools have made impressive progress in verifying control-dominant properties of code, most prominently in the domain of device drivers, their applications to more data-intensive properties have been limited. In particular, we focus on parameterized systems, which define infinite families of systems, one for each value of the parameter. Many real-life software systems, for example, memory management units or cache coherence protocols can be modeled as parameterized systems (parameterized, e.g., by the number of processes and memory locations), We want to perform uniform verification of parameterized systems, where we show a formula is an invariant of every member in the parameterized family.
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Majumdar, R. (2012). The Marriage of Exploration and Deduction. In: Joshi, R., Müller, P., Podelski, A. (eds) Verified Software: Theories, Tools, Experiments. VSTTE 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7152. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27705-4_13
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