Decidability of Invariant Validation for Paramaterized Systems
Pascal Fontaine6
and E. Pascal Gribomont6 
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University of Liège, Belgium |
Abstract
The control part of many concurrent and distributed programs reduces to a set Π = {p
1, . . . , p
n
} of symmetric processes containing mainly assignments and tests on Boolean variables. However, the assignments, the guards
and the program invariants can be Π-quantified, so the corresponding verification conditions also involve Π-quantifications.
We propose a systematic procedure allowing the elimination of such quantifications for a large class of program invariants.
At the core of this procedure is a variant of the Herbrand Theorem for many-sorted first-order logic with equality.
This work was funded by a grant of the “Communauté française de Belgique - Direction de la recherche scientifique - Actions
de recherche concertées”
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