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text: "In this work we solve the algorithmic problem of consistency verification
for the TSO and PSO memory models given a reads-from map, denoted VTSO-rf and
VPSO-rf, respectively. For an execution of n events over k threads and d variables,
we establish novel bounds that scale as nk+1 for TSO and as nk+1· min(nk2, 2k·
d) for PSO. Moreover, based on our solution to these problems, we develop an SMC
algorithm under TSO and PSO that uses the RF equivalence. The algorithm is exploration-optimal,
in the sense that it is guaranteed to explore each class of the RF partitioning
exactly once, and spends polynomial time per class when k is bounded. Finally,
we implement all our algorithms in the SMC tool Nidhugg, and perform a large number
of experiments over benchmarks from existing literature. Our experimental results
show that our algorithms for VTSO-rf and VPSO-rf provide significant scalability
improvements over standard alternatives. Moreover, when used for SMC, the RF partitioning
is often much coarser than the standard Shasha-Snir partitioning for TSO/PSO,
which yields a significant speedup in the model checking task.\r\n\r\n"
acknowledgement: "The research was partially funded by the ERC CoG 863818 (ForM-SMArt)
and the Vienna Science\r\nand Technology Fund (WWTF) through project ICT15-003."
article_number: '164'
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author:
- first_name: Truc Lam
full_name: Bui, Truc Lam
last_name: Bui
- first_name: Krishnendu
full_name: Chatterjee, Krishnendu
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last_name: Chatterjee
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- first_name: Tushar
full_name: Gautam, Tushar
last_name: Gautam
- first_name: Andreas
full_name: Pavlogiannis, Andreas
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last_name: Pavlogiannis
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full_name: Toman, Viktor
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last_name: Toman
orcid: 0000-0001-9036-063X
citation:
ama: Bui TL, Chatterjee K, Gautam T, Pavlogiannis A, Toman V. The reads-from equivalence
for the TSO and PSO memory models. Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages.
2021;5(OOPSLA). doi:10.1145/3485541
apa: Bui, T. L., Chatterjee, K., Gautam, T., Pavlogiannis, A., & Toman, V. (2021).
The reads-from equivalence for the TSO and PSO memory models. Proceedings of
the ACM on Programming Languages. Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3485541
chicago: Bui, Truc Lam, Krishnendu Chatterjee, Tushar Gautam, Andreas Pavlogiannis,
and Viktor Toman. “The Reads-from Equivalence for the TSO and PSO Memory Models.”
Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages. Association for Computing
Machinery, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1145/3485541.
ieee: T. L. Bui, K. Chatterjee, T. Gautam, A. Pavlogiannis, and V. Toman, “The reads-from
equivalence for the TSO and PSO memory models,” Proceedings of the ACM on Programming
Languages, vol. 5, no. OOPSLA. Association for Computing Machinery, 2021.
ista: Bui TL, Chatterjee K, Gautam T, Pavlogiannis A, Toman V. 2021. The reads-from
equivalence for the TSO and PSO memory models. Proceedings of the ACM on Programming
Languages. 5(OOPSLA), 164.
mla: Bui, Truc Lam, et al. “The Reads-from Equivalence for the TSO and PSO Memory
Models.” Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages, vol. 5, no. OOPSLA,
164, Association for Computing Machinery, 2021, doi:10.1145/3485541.
short: T.L. Bui, K. Chatterjee, T. Gautam, A. Pavlogiannis, V. Toman, Proceedings
of the ACM on Programming Languages 5 (2021).
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text: The design and verification of concurrent systems remains an open challenge
due to the non-determinism that arises from the inter-process communication. In
particular, concurrent programs are notoriously difficult both to be written correctly
and to be analyzed formally, as complex thread interaction has to be accounted
for. The difficulties are further exacerbated when concurrent programs get executed
on modern-day hardware, which contains various buffering and caching mechanisms
for efficiency reasons. This causes further subtle non-determinism, which can
often produce very unintuitive behavior of the concurrent programs. Model checking
is at the forefront of tackling the verification problem, where the task is to
decide, given as input a concurrent system and a desired property, whether the
system satisfies the property. The inherent state-space explosion problem in model
checking of concurrent systems causes naïve explicit methods not to scale, thus
more inventive methods are required. One such method is stateless model checking
(SMC), which explores in memory-efficient manner the program executions rather
than the states of the program. State-of-the-art SMC is typically coupled with
partial order reduction (POR) techniques, which argue that certain executions
provably produce identical system behavior, thus limiting the amount of executions
one needs to explore in order to cover all possible behaviors. Another method
to tackle the state-space explosion is symbolic model checking, where the considered
techniques operate on a succinct implicit representation of the input system rather
than explicitly accessing the system. In this thesis we present new techniques
for verification of concurrent systems. We present several novel POR methods for
SMC of concurrent programs under various models of semantics, some of which account
for write-buffering mechanisms. Additionally, we present novel algorithms for
symbolic model checking of finite-state concurrent systems, where the desired
property of the systems is to ensure a formally defined notion of fairness.
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apa: Toman, V. (2021). Improved verification techniques for concurrent systems.
Institute of Science and Technology Austria. https://doi.org/10.15479/at:ista:10199
chicago: Toman, Viktor. “Improved Verification Techniques for Concurrent Systems.”
Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2021. https://doi.org/10.15479/at:ista:10199.
ieee: V. Toman, “Improved verification techniques for concurrent systems,” Institute
of Science and Technology Austria, 2021.
ista: Toman V. 2021. Improved verification techniques for concurrent systems. Institute
of Science and Technology Austria.
mla: Toman, Viktor. Improved Verification Techniques for Concurrent Systems.
Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2021, doi:10.15479/at:ista:10199.
short: V. Toman, Improved Verification Techniques for Concurrent Systems, Institute
of Science and Technology Austria, 2021.
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text: 'Stateless model checking (SMC) is one of the standard approaches to the verification
of concurrent programs. As scheduling non-determinism creates exponentially large
spaces of thread interleavings, SMC attempts to partition this space into equivalence
classes and explore only a few representatives from each class. The efficiency
of this approach depends on two factors: (a) the coarseness of the partitioning,
and (b) the time to generate representatives in each class. For this reason, the
search for coarse partitionings that are efficiently explorable is an active research
challenge. In this work we present RVF-SMC , a new SMC algorithm that uses a
novel reads-value-from (RVF) partitioning. Intuitively, two interleavings are
deemed equivalent if they agree on the value obtained in each read event, and
read events induce consistent causal orderings between them. The RVF partitioning
is provably coarser than recent approaches based on Mazurkiewicz and “reads-from”
partitionings. Our experimental evaluation reveals that RVF is quite often a very
effective equivalence, as the underlying partitioning is exponentially coarser
than other approaches. Moreover, RVF-SMC generates representatives very efficiently,
as the reduction in the partitioning is often met with significant speed-ups in
the model checking task.'
acknowledgement: The research was partially funded by the ERC CoG 863818 (ForM-SMArt)
and the Vienna Science and Technology Fund (WWTF) through project ICT15-003.
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last_name: Chatterjee
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ama: 'Agarwal P, Chatterjee K, Pathak S, Pavlogiannis A, Toman V. Stateless model
checking under a reads-value-from equivalence. In: 33rd International Conference
on Computer-Aided Verification . Vol 12759. Springer Nature; 2021:341-366.
doi:10.1007/978-3-030-81685-8_16'
apa: 'Agarwal, P., Chatterjee, K., Pathak, S., Pavlogiannis, A., & Toman, V.
(2021). Stateless model checking under a reads-value-from equivalence. In 33rd
International Conference on Computer-Aided Verification (Vol. 12759, pp.
341–366). Virtual: Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-81685-8_16'
chicago: Agarwal, Pratyush, Krishnendu Chatterjee, Shreya Pathak, Andreas Pavlogiannis,
and Viktor Toman. “Stateless Model Checking under a Reads-Value-from Equivalence.”
In 33rd International Conference on Computer-Aided Verification , 12759:341–66.
Springer Nature, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-81685-8_16.
ieee: P. Agarwal, K. Chatterjee, S. Pathak, A. Pavlogiannis, and V. Toman, “Stateless
model checking under a reads-value-from equivalence,” in 33rd International
Conference on Computer-Aided Verification , Virtual, 2021, vol. 12759, pp.
341–366.
ista: 'Agarwal P, Chatterjee K, Pathak S, Pavlogiannis A, Toman V. 2021. Stateless
model checking under a reads-value-from equivalence. 33rd International Conference
on Computer-Aided Verification . CAV: Computer Aided Verification , LNCS, vol.
12759, 341–366.'
mla: Agarwal, Pratyush, et al. “Stateless Model Checking under a Reads-Value-from
Equivalence.” 33rd International Conference on Computer-Aided Verification
, vol. 12759, Springer Nature, 2021, pp. 341–66, doi:10.1007/978-3-030-81685-8_16.
short: P. Agarwal, K. Chatterjee, S. Pathak, A. Pavlogiannis, V. Toman, in:, 33rd
International Conference on Computer-Aided Verification , Springer Nature, 2021,
pp. 341–366.
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text: "Graph games and Markov decision processes (MDPs) are standard models in reactive
synthesis and verification of probabilistic systems with nondeterminism. The class
of \U0001D714 -regular winning conditions; e.g., safety, reachability, liveness,
parity conditions; provides a robust and expressive specification formalism for
properties that arise in analysis of reactive systems. The resolutions of nondeterminism
in games and MDPs are represented as strategies, and we consider succinct representation
of such strategies. The decision-tree data structure from machine learning retains
the flavor of decisions of strategies and allows entropy-based minimization to
obtain succinct trees. However, in contrast to traditional machine-learning problems
where small errors are allowed, for winning strategies in graph games and MDPs
no error is allowed, and the decision tree must represent the entire strategy.
In this work we propose decision trees with linear classifiers for representation
of strategies in graph games and MDPs. We have implemented strategy representation
using this data structure and we present experimental results for problems on
graph games and MDPs, which show that this new data structure presents a much
more efficient strategy representation as compared to standard decision trees."
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ama: 'Ashok P, Brázdil T, Chatterjee K, Křetínský J, Lampert C, Toman V. Strategy
representation by decision trees with linear classifiers. In: 16th International
Conference on Quantitative Evaluation of Systems. Vol 11785. Springer Nature;
2019:109-128. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-30281-8_7'
apa: 'Ashok, P., Brázdil, T., Chatterjee, K., Křetínský, J., Lampert, C., &
Toman, V. (2019). Strategy representation by decision trees with linear classifiers.
In 16th International Conference on Quantitative Evaluation of Systems
(Vol. 11785, pp. 109–128). Glasgow, United Kingdom: Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30281-8_7'
chicago: Ashok, Pranav, Tomáš Brázdil, Krishnendu Chatterjee, Jan Křetínský, Christoph
Lampert, and Viktor Toman. “Strategy Representation by Decision Trees with Linear
Classifiers.” In 16th International Conference on Quantitative Evaluation of
Systems, 11785:109–28. Springer Nature, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30281-8_7.
ieee: P. Ashok, T. Brázdil, K. Chatterjee, J. Křetínský, C. Lampert, and V. Toman,
“Strategy representation by decision trees with linear classifiers,” in 16th
International Conference on Quantitative Evaluation of Systems, Glasgow, United
Kingdom, 2019, vol. 11785, pp. 109–128.
ista: 'Ashok P, Brázdil T, Chatterjee K, Křetínský J, Lampert C, Toman V. 2019.
Strategy representation by decision trees with linear classifiers. 16th International
Conference on Quantitative Evaluation of Systems. QEST: Quantitative Evaluation
of Systems, LNCS, vol. 11785, 109–128.'
mla: Ashok, Pranav, et al. “Strategy Representation by Decision Trees with Linear
Classifiers.” 16th International Conference on Quantitative Evaluation of Systems,
vol. 11785, Springer Nature, 2019, pp. 109–28, doi:10.1007/978-3-030-30281-8_7.
short: P. Ashok, T. Brázdil, K. Chatterjee, J. Křetínský, C. Lampert, V. Toman,
in:, 16th International Conference on Quantitative Evaluation of Systems, Springer
Nature, 2019, pp. 109–128.
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location: Glasgow, United Kingdom
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doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-30281-8_7
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text: 'The verification of concurrent programs remains an open challenge, as thread
interaction has to be accounted for, which leads to state-space explosion. Stateless
model checking battles this problem by exploring traces rather than states of
the program. As there are exponentially many traces, dynamic partial-order reduction
(DPOR) techniques are used to partition the trace space into equivalence classes,
and explore a few representatives from each class. The standard equivalence that
underlies most DPOR techniques is the happens-before equivalence, however recent
works have spawned a vivid interest towards coarser equivalences. The efficiency
of such approaches is a product of two parameters: (i) the size of the partitioning
induced by the equivalence, and (ii) the time spent by the exploration algorithm
in each class of the partitioning. In this work, we present a new equivalence,
called value-happens-before and show that it has two appealing features. First,
value-happens-before is always at least as coarse as the happens-before equivalence,
and can be even exponentially coarser. Second, the value-happens-before partitioning
is efficiently explorable when the number of threads is bounded. We present an
algorithm called value-centric DPOR (VCDPOR), which explores the underlying partitioning
using polynomial time per class. Finally, we perform an experimental evaluation
of VCDPOR on various benchmarks, and compare it against other state-of-the-art
approaches. Our results show that value-happens-before typically induces a significant
reduction in the size of the underlying partitioning, which leads to a considerable
reduction in the running time for exploring the whole partitioning.'
acknowledgement: "The authors would also like to thank anonymous referees for their
valuable comments and helpful suggestions. This work is supported by the Austrian
Science Fund (FWF) NFN grants S11407-N23 (RiSE/SHiNE) and S11402-N23 (RiSE/SHiNE),
by the Vienna Science and Technology Fund (WWTF) Project ICT15-003, and by the Austrian
Science Fund (FWF) Schrodinger grant J-4220.\r\n"
article_number: '124'
article_processing_charge: No
arxiv: 1
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full_name: Chatterjee, Krishnendu
id: 2E5DCA20-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
last_name: Chatterjee
orcid: 0000-0002-4561-241X
- first_name: Andreas
full_name: Pavlogiannis, Andreas
id: 49704004-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
last_name: Pavlogiannis
orcid: 0000-0002-8943-0722
- first_name: Viktor
full_name: Toman, Viktor
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last_name: Toman
orcid: 0000-0001-9036-063X
citation:
ama: 'Chatterjee K, Pavlogiannis A, Toman V. Value-centric dynamic partial order
reduction. In: Proceedings of the 34th ACM International Conference on Object-Oriented
Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications. Vol 3. ACM; 2019. doi:10.1145/3360550'
apa: 'Chatterjee, K., Pavlogiannis, A., & Toman, V. (2019). Value-centric dynamic
partial order reduction. In Proceedings of the 34th ACM International Conference
on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications (Vol.
3). Athens, Greece: ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/3360550'
chicago: Chatterjee, Krishnendu, Andreas Pavlogiannis, and Viktor Toman. “Value-Centric
Dynamic Partial Order Reduction.” In Proceedings of the 34th ACM International
Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications,
Vol. 3. ACM, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1145/3360550.
ieee: K. Chatterjee, A. Pavlogiannis, and V. Toman, “Value-centric dynamic partial
order reduction,” in Proceedings of the 34th ACM International Conference on
Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications, Athens,
Greece, 2019, vol. 3.
ista: 'Chatterjee K, Pavlogiannis A, Toman V. 2019. Value-centric dynamic partial
order reduction. Proceedings of the 34th ACM International Conference on Object-Oriented
Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications. OOPSLA: Object-oriented Programming,
Systems, Languages and Applications vol. 3, 124.'
mla: Chatterjee, Krishnendu, et al. “Value-Centric Dynamic Partial Order Reduction.”
Proceedings of the 34th ACM International Conference on Object-Oriented Programming,
Systems, Languages, and Applications, vol. 3, 124, ACM, 2019, doi:10.1145/3360550.
short: K. Chatterjee, A. Pavlogiannis, V. Toman, in:, Proceedings of the 34th ACM
International Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and
Applications, ACM, 2019.
conference:
end_date: 2019-10-25
location: Athens, Greece
name: 'OOPSLA: Object-oriented Programming, Systems, Languages and Applications'
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date_created: 2021-10-27T14:57:06Z
date_published: 2019-10-10T00:00:00Z
date_updated: 2025-07-14T09:10:15Z
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text: Graph games played by two players over finite-state graphs are central in
many problems in computer science. In particular, graph games with ω -regular
winning conditions, specified as parity objectives, which can express properties
such as safety, liveness, fairness, are the basic framework for verification and
synthesis of reactive systems. The decisions for a player at various states of
the graph game are represented as strategies. While the algorithmic problem for
solving graph games with parity objectives has been widely studied, the most prominent
data-structure for strategy representation in graph games has been binary decision
diagrams (BDDs). However, due to the bit-level representation, BDDs do not retain
the inherent flavor of the decisions of strategies, and are notoriously hard to
minimize to obtain succinct representation. In this work we propose decision trees
for strategy representation in graph games. Decision trees retain the flavor of
decisions of strategies and allow entropy-based minimization to obtain succinct
trees. However, decision trees work in settings (e.g., probabilistic models) where
errors are allowed, and overfitting of data is typically avoided. In contrast,
for strategies in graph games no error is allowed, and the decision tree must
represent the entire strategy. We develop new techniques to extend decision trees
to overcome the above obstacles, while retaining the entropy-based techniques
to obtain succinct trees. We have implemented our techniques to extend the existing
decision tree solvers. We present experimental results for problems in reactive
synthesis to show that decision trees provide a much more efficient data-structure
for strategy representation as compared to BDDs.
alternative_title:
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author:
- first_name: Tomáš
full_name: Brázdil, Tomáš
last_name: Brázdil
- first_name: Krishnendu
full_name: Chatterjee, Krishnendu
id: 2E5DCA20-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
last_name: Chatterjee
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- first_name: Jan
full_name: Kretinsky, Jan
id: 44CEF464-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
last_name: Kretinsky
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last_name: Toman
orcid: 0000-0001-9036-063X
citation:
ama: 'Brázdil T, Chatterjee K, Kretinsky J, Toman V. Strategy representation by
decision trees in reactive synthesis. In: Vol 10805. Springer; 2018:385-407. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-89960-2_21'
apa: 'Brázdil, T., Chatterjee, K., Kretinsky, J., & Toman, V. (2018). Strategy
representation by decision trees in reactive synthesis (Vol. 10805, pp. 385–407).
Presented at the TACAS 2018: Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis
of Systems, Thessaloniki, Greece: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-89960-2_21'
chicago: Brázdil, Tomáš, Krishnendu Chatterjee, Jan Kretinsky, and Viktor Toman.
“Strategy Representation by Decision Trees in Reactive Synthesis,” 10805:385–407.
Springer, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-89960-2_21.
ieee: 'T. Brázdil, K. Chatterjee, J. Kretinsky, and V. Toman, “Strategy representation
by decision trees in reactive synthesis,” presented at the TACAS 2018: Tools and
Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems, Thessaloniki, Greece,
2018, vol. 10805, pp. 385–407.'
ista: 'Brázdil T, Chatterjee K, Kretinsky J, Toman V. 2018. Strategy representation
by decision trees in reactive synthesis. TACAS 2018: Tools and Algorithms for
the Construction and Analysis of Systems, LNCS, vol. 10805, 385–407.'
mla: Brázdil, Tomáš, et al. Strategy Representation by Decision Trees in Reactive
Synthesis. Vol. 10805, Springer, 2018, pp. 385–407, doi:10.1007/978-3-319-89960-2_21.
short: T. Brázdil, K. Chatterjee, J. Kretinsky, V. Toman, in:, Springer, 2018, pp.
385–407.
conference:
end_date: 2018-04-20
location: Thessaloniki, Greece
name: 'TACAS 2018: Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems'
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date_published: 2018-04-12T00:00:00Z
date_updated: 2025-06-02T08:53:40Z
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department:
- _id: KrCh
- _id: ToHe
doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-89960-2_21
ec_funded: 1
external_id:
isi:
- '000546326300021'
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name: Efficient Algorithms for Computer Aided Verification
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call_identifier: FWF
grant_number: S 11407_N23
name: Rigorous Systems Engineering
- _id: 2581B60A-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425
call_identifier: FP7
grant_number: '279307'
name: 'Quantitative Graph Games: Theory and Applications'
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abstract:
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text: 'Given a model and a specification, the fundamental model-checking problem
asks for algorithmic verification of whether the model satisfies the specification.
We consider graphs and Markov decision processes (MDPs), which are fundamental
models for reactive systems. One of the very basic specifications that arise in
verification of reactive systems is the strong fairness (aka Streett) objective.
Given different types of requests and corresponding grants, the objective requires
that for each type, if the request event happens infinitely often, then the corresponding
grant event must also happen infinitely often. All ω -regular objectives can be
expressed as Streett objectives and hence they are canonical in verification.
To handle the state-space explosion, symbolic algorithms are required that operate
on a succinct implicit representation of the system rather than explicitly accessing
the system. While explicit algorithms for graphs and MDPs with Streett objectives
have been widely studied, there has been no improvement of the basic symbolic
algorithms. The worst-case numbers of symbolic steps required for the basic symbolic
algorithms are as follows: quadratic for graphs and cubic for MDPs. In this work
we present the first sub-quadratic symbolic algorithm for graphs with Streett
objectives, and our algorithm is sub-quadratic even for MDPs. Based on our algorithmic
insights we present an implementation of the new symbolic approach and show that
it improves the existing approach on several academic benchmark examples.'
acknowledgement: 'Acknowledgements. K. C. and M. H. are partially supported by the
Vienna Science and Technology Fund (WWTF) grant ICT15-003. K. C. is partially supported
by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF): S11407-N23 (RiSE/SHiNE), and an ERC Start Grant
(279307: Graph Games). V. T. is partially supported by the European Union’s Horizon
2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sk lodowska-Curie Grant Agreement
No. 665385.'
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last_name: Chatterjee
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- first_name: Monika H
full_name: Henzinger, Monika H
id: 540c9bbd-f2de-11ec-812d-d04a5be85630
last_name: Henzinger
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last_name: Loitzenbauer
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full_name: Oraee, Simin
last_name: Oraee
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full_name: Toman, Viktor
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last_name: Toman
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citation:
ama: 'Chatterjee K, Henzinger MH, Loitzenbauer V, Oraee S, Toman V. Symbolic algorithms
for graphs and Markov decision processes with fairness objectives. In: Vol 10982.
Springer; 2018:178-197. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-96142-2_13'
apa: 'Chatterjee, K., Henzinger, M. H., Loitzenbauer, V., Oraee, S., & Toman,
V. (2018). Symbolic algorithms for graphs and Markov decision processes with fairness
objectives (Vol. 10982, pp. 178–197). Presented at the CAV: Computer Aided Verification,
Oxford, United Kingdom: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96142-2_13'
chicago: Chatterjee, Krishnendu, Monika H Henzinger, Veronika Loitzenbauer, Simin
Oraee, and Viktor Toman. “Symbolic Algorithms for Graphs and Markov Decision Processes
with Fairness Objectives,” 10982:178–97. Springer, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96142-2_13.
ieee: 'K. Chatterjee, M. H. Henzinger, V. Loitzenbauer, S. Oraee, and V. Toman,
“Symbolic algorithms for graphs and Markov decision processes with fairness objectives,”
presented at the CAV: Computer Aided Verification, Oxford, United Kingdom, 2018,
vol. 10982, pp. 178–197.'
ista: 'Chatterjee K, Henzinger MH, Loitzenbauer V, Oraee S, Toman V. 2018. Symbolic
algorithms for graphs and Markov decision processes with fairness objectives.
CAV: Computer Aided Verification, LNCS, vol. 10982, 178–197.'
mla: Chatterjee, Krishnendu, et al. Symbolic Algorithms for Graphs and Markov
Decision Processes with Fairness Objectives. Vol. 10982, Springer, 2018, pp.
178–97, doi:10.1007/978-3-319-96142-2_13.
short: K. Chatterjee, M.H. Henzinger, V. Loitzenbauer, S. Oraee, V. Toman, in:,
Springer, 2018, pp. 178–197.
conference:
end_date: 2018-07-17
location: Oxford, United Kingdom
name: 'CAV: Computer Aided Verification'
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