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Most applications today communicate with other processes over a network. Such applications are often multi-threaded. The non-determinism in the thread and communication schedules makes it desirable to model check such applications. When model checking such a networked application, a simple state space exploration scheme is not applicable, as the process being model checked would repeat communication operations when revisiting a given state after backtracking. We propose a solution that encapsulates such operations in a caching layer that is capable of hiding redundant communication operations from the environment. This approach is both more portable and more scalable than other approaches, as only a single process executes inside the model checker.
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Artho, C., Leungwattanakit, W., Hagiya, M., Tanabe, Y. (2008). Efficient Model Checking of Networked Applications. In: Paige, R.F., Meyer, B. (eds) Objects, Components, Models and Patterns. TOOLS EUROPE 2008. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 11. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-69824-1_3
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