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Dynamic Partial Order Reduction of Model Checking Software
Posted by: Ray 5:35pm, Saturday, 24 November 2007
We present a new approach to partial-order reduction for model checking software. This approach is based on initially exploring an arbitrary interleaving of the various concurrent processes/threads, and dynamically tracking interactions between these to identify backtracking points where alternative paths in the state space need to be explored. We present examples of multi-threaded programs where our new dynamic partial-order reduction technique significantly reduces the search space, even though traditional partial-order algorithms are helpless.
Cormac Flanagan and Patrice Godefroid
Appears in POPL 2005
http://research.microsoft.com/users/pg/public_psfiles/popl2005.ps
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