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Program Checking with Certificates: Separating Correctness-Critical Code

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FME 2003: Formal Methods (FME 2003)

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We introduce program checking with certificates by extending the traditional notion of black-box program checking. Moreover, we establish program checking with certificates as a safety-scalable and practical method to ensure the correctness of real-scale applications. We motivate our extension of program checking with concepts of computational complexity theory and show its practical implication on the implementation and verification of checkers. Furthermore, we present an iterative method to construct checkers which is able to deal with the practically relevant problem of incomplete or missing specifications of software. In our case study, we have considered compilers and their generators, in particular code generators based on rewrite systems.

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  1. Institut für Programmstrukturen und Datenorganisation, Universität Karlsruhe, 76128, Karlsruhe, Germany

    Sabine Glesner

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Communication Engineering, Graduate School of Information Science and Electrical Engineering, Kyushu University, 6-10-1-Hakozaki, Higashi-ku, 812-8581, Fukuoka, Japan

    Keijiro Araki

  2. Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell’Informazione “A. Faedo”, ISTI - CNR, Pisa, Italy

    Stefania Gnesi

  3. Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

    Dino Mandrioli

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Glesner, S. (2003). Program Checking with Certificates: Separating Correctness-Critical Code. In: Araki, K., Gnesi, S., Mandrioli, D. (eds) FME 2003: Formal Methods. FME 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2805. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-45236-2_41

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