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We concentrate on automatic addition of UNITY properties unless, stable, invariant, and leads-to to programs. We formally define the problem of adding UNITY properties to programs while preserving their existing properties. For cases where one simultaneously adds a single leads-to property along with a conjunction of unless, stable, and invariant properties to an existing program, we present a sound and complete algorithm with polynomial time complexity (in program state space). However, for cases where one simultaneously adds two leads-to properties to a program, we present a somewhat unexpected result that such addition is NP-complete. Therefore, in general, adding one leads-to property is significantly easier than adding two (or more) leads-to properties.
This work was partially sponsored by NSF CAREER CCR-0092724, DARPA Grant OSURS01-C-1901, ONR Grant N00014-01-1-0744, NSF grant EIA-0130724, and a grant from Michigan State University.
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Ebnenasir, A., Kulkarni, S.S., Bonakdarpour, B. (2006). Revising UNITY Programs: Possibilities and Limitations. In: Anderson, J.H., Prencipe, G., Wattenhofer, R. (eds) Principles of Distributed Systems. OPODIS 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3974. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11795490_22
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