@inproceedings{23a042fc418e4f27a0bae5800100d0b9,
title = "Efficient generation of inductive validity cores for safety properties",
abstract = "Symbolic model checkers can construct proofs of properties over very complex models. However, the results reported by the tool when a proof succeeds do not generally provide much insight to the user. It is often useful for users to have traceability information related to the proof: which portions of the model were necessary to construct it. This traceability information can be used to diagnose a variety of modeling problems such as overconstrained axioms and underconstrained properties, and can also be used to measure completeness of a set of requirements over a model. In this paper, we present a new algorithm to efficiently compute the inductive validity core (IVC) within a model necessary for inductive proofs of safety properties for sequential systems. The algorithm is based on the UNSAT core support built into current SMT solvers and a novel encoding of the inductive problem to try to generate a minimal inductive validity core. We prove our algorithm is correct, and describe its implementation in the JKind model checker for Lustre models. We then present an experiment in which we benchmark the algorithm in terms of speed, diversity of produced cores, and minimality, with promising results.",
keywords = "IC3/PDR, K-Induction, Requirements Completeness, Traceability",
author = "Elaheh Ghassabani and Andrew Gacek and Whalen, {Michael W.}",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2016 ACM. Copyright: Copyright 2017 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.; 24th ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Foundations of Software Engineering, FSE 2016 ; Conference date: 13-11-2016 Through 18-11-2016",
year = "2016",
month = nov,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1145/2950290.2950346",
language = "English (US)",
series = "Proceedings of the ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering",
publisher = "Association for Computing Machinery",
pages = "314--325",
editor = "Zhendong Su and Thomas Zimmermann and Jane Cleland-Huang",
booktitle = "FSE 2016 - Proceedings of the 2016 24th ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Foundations of Software Engineering",
}