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Making Abstract Model Checking Strongly Preserving

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Static Analysis (SAS 2002)

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Usually, abstract model checking is not strongly preserving: it may well exist a temporal specification which is not valid on the abstract model but which is instead satisfied by the concrete model. Starting from the standard notion of bisimulation, we introduce a notion of completeness for abstract models: completeness together with a so-called partitioning property for abstract models implies strong preservation for the past μ-calculus. Within a rigorous abstract interpretation framework, we show that the least refinement of a given abstract model, for a suitable ordering on abstract models, which is complete and partitioning always exists, and it can be constructively characterized as a greatest fixpoint. This provides a systematic methodology for minimally refining an abstract model checking in order to get strong preservation.

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  1. Dipartimento di Matematica Pura ed Applicata, Università di Padova, Via Belzoni 7, 35131, Padova, Italy

    Francesco Ranzato & Francesco Tapparo

  2. Dipartimento di Matematica, Università di Milano, Milano, Italy

    Francesco Tapparo

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Ranzato, F., Tapparo, F. (2002). Making Abstract Model Checking Strongly Preserving. In: Hermenegildo, M.V., Puebla, G. (eds) Static Analysis. SAS 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2477. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45789-5_29

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