Model Checking Dynamic Allocation and Deallocation

Distefano, Dino and Rensink, Arend and Katoen, Joost-Pieter (2001) Model Checking Dynamic Allocation and Deallocation. [Report]

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Abstract:	This paper proposes Allocational Temporal Logic (ATL) as a formalism to express properties concerning the dynamic allocation (birth) and de-allocation (death) of entities, such as the objects in an object-based system. The logic is interpreted on History-Dependent Automata, extended with a symbolic representation for certain cases of unbounded allocation. The paper also presents a simple imperative language with primitive statements for (de)allocation, with an operational semantics, to demonstrate the kind of behaviour that can be modelled. The main contribution of the paper is a tableau-based model checking algorithm for ATL, along the lines of Lichtenstein and Pnueli's algorithm for LTL.
Item Type:	Report
Faculty:	Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science (EEMCS)
Research Group:	Formal Methods and Tools (FMT)
Link to this item:	http://purl.utwente.nl/publications/63091
Official URL:	http://www.ub.utwente.nl/webdocs/ctit/1/0000007a.pdf
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