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    Disproving termination with overapproximation

    Cook, B. and Fuhs, Carsten and Nimkar, K. and O'Hearn, P. (2014) Disproving termination with overapproximation. In: UNSPECIFIED (ed.) Formal Methods in Computer-Aided Design (FMCAD 2014). IEEE Computer Society, pp. 67-74. ISBN 9780983567844.

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    Abstract

    When disproving termination using known techniques (e.g. recurrence sets), abstractions that overapproximate the program’s transition relation are unsound. In this paper we introduce live abstractions, a natural class of abstractions that can be combined with the recent concept of closed recurrence sets to soundly disprove termination. To demonstrate the practical usefulness of this new approach we show how programs with nonlinear, nondeterministic, and heap-based commands can be shown nonterminating using linear overapproximations.

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    Item Type: Book Section
    Additional Information: Copyright IEEE 2014
    School: Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Science > School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences
    Depositing User: Carsten Fuhs
    Date Deposited: 10 Dec 2015 13:04
    Last Modified: 09 Aug 2023 12:37
    URI: https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/13533

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