@inproceedings{b74ba28d2fdb43beb21298c56cfbd3a2,
title = "Ivy: Safety verification by interactive generalization",
abstract = "Despite several decades of research, the problem of formal verification of infinite-state systems has resisted effective automation. We describe a system - Ivy - for interactively verifying safety of infinite-state systems. Ivy's key principle is that whenever verification fails, Ivy graphically displays a concrete counterexample to induction. The user then interactively guides generalization from this counterexample. This process continues until an inductive invariant is found. Ivy searches for universally quantified invariants, and uses a restricted modeling language. This ensures that all verification conditions can be checked algorithmically. All user interactions are performed using graphical models, easing the user's task. We describe our initial experience with verifying several distributed protocols.",
keywords = "Counterexamples to induction, Distributed systems, Invariant inference, Safety verification",
author = "Oded Padon and McMillan, {Kenneth L.} and Aurojit Panda and Mooly Sagiv and Sharon Shoham",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2016 ACM.; 37th ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation, PLDI 2016 ; Conference date: 13-06-2016 Through 17-06-2016",
year = "2016",
month = jun,
day = "2",
doi = "10.1145/2908080.2908118",
language = "אנגלית",
series = "Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI)",
publisher = "Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)",
pages = "614--630",
editor = "Chandra Krintz and Emery Berger",
booktitle = "PLDI '16",
address = "ארצות הברית",
}