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Software is being employed for life-critical, safety-critical, infrastructure-critical and economically critical applications. Our daily lives rely heavily on proper functioning of software in gadgets we directly or indirectly use-airplanes, flight control, high speed trains, cars, cell-phones, medical devices and instruments, banks, and what not. Malfunctioning of a program can have very severe consequences-costing lives (e.g. Therac-25 [13], Patriot missile) and money (e.g. Ariane 5, malfunctioning of economic transactions, problems in stock exchanges) [14]. Validation and verification of software have become even more and more important. Given that full verification of software has been found increasingly difficult to achieve because of lack of rigorous and complete specifications on one hand as well as difficulty of verification systems/theorem provers to address the increasing complexity of software despite considerable advances in automated reasoning techniques, ensuring absence of various types of bugs becomes a critical first step in ensuring reliability.
Supported in part by an NSF award CCF-0729097.
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Kapur, D. (2012). Program Analysis Using Quantifier-Elimination Heuristics. In: Agrawal, M., Cooper, S.B., Li, A. (eds) Theory and Applications of Models of Computation. TAMC 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7287. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-29952-0_15
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