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Relative Safety

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Verification, Model Checking, and Abstract Interpretation (VMCAI 2006)

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A safety property restricts the set of reachable states. In this paper, we introduce a notion of relative safety which states that certain program states are reachable provided certain other states are. A key, but not exclusive, application of this method is in representing symmetry in a program. Here, we show that relative safety generalizes the programs that are presently accommodated by existing methods for symmetry. Finally, we provide a practical algorithm for proving relative safety.

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  1. School of Computing, National University of Singapore, S16, 3 Science Drive 2, Singapore, 117543, Republic of Singapore

    Joxan Jaffar, Andrew E. Santosa & Răzvan Voicu

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  1. Aiken Computation Laboratory, Harvard University,, 02138, Cambridge, Mass, USA

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Jaffar, J., Santosa, A.E., Voicu, R. (2005). Relative Safety. In: Emerson, E.A., Namjoshi, K.S. (eds) Verification, Model Checking, and Abstract Interpretation. VMCAI 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3855. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11609773_19

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