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    A decision procedure for satisfiability in separation logic with inductive predicates

    Brotherston, J. and Fuhs, Carsten and Navarro Pérez, J.A. and Gorogiannis, N. (2014) A decision procedure for satisfiability in separation logic with inductive predicates. In: UNSPECIFIED (ed.) Proceedings of the Joint Meeting of the Twenty-Third EACSL Annual Conference on Computer Science Logic (CSL) and the Twenty-Ninth Annual ACM/IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science (LICS) - CSL-LICS '14. New York, U.S.: ACM. ISBN 9781450328869.

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    Abstract

    We show that the satisfiability problem for the "symbolic heap" fragment of separation logic with general inductively defined predicates - which includes most fragments employed in program verification - is decidable. Our decision procedure is based on the computation of a certain fixed point from the definition of an inductive predicate, called its "base", that exactly characterises its satisfiability. A complexity analysis of our decision procedure shows that it runs, in the worst case, in exponential time. In fact, we show that the satisfiability problem for our inductive predicates is EXPTIME-complete, and becomes NP-complete when the maximum arity over all predicates is bounded by a constant. Finally, we provide an implementation of our decision procedure, and analyse its performance both on a synthetically generated set of test formulas, and on a second test set harvested from the separation logic literature. For the large majority of these test cases, our tool reports times in the low milliseconds.

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    Item Type: Book Section
    Additional Information: CSL-LICS '14; Proceedings of the Joint Meeting of the Twenty-Third EACSL Annual Conference on Computer Science Logic (CSL) and the Twenty-Ninth Annual ACM/IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science (LICS)
    Keyword(s) / Subject(s): separation logic, inductive predicates, satisfiability, decision procedure
    School: Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Science > School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences
    Depositing User: Carsten Fuhs
    Date Deposited: 10 Dec 2015 13:20
    Last Modified: 09 Aug 2023 12:37
    URI: https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/13548

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