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On an Efficient Decision Procedure for Imperative Tree Data Structures

Wies, Thomas
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Muniz, Marko
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Kuncak, Viktor  
2011

We present a new decidable logic called TREX for expressing constraints about imperative tree data structures. In particular, TREX supports a transitive closure operator that can express reachability constraints, which often appear in data structure invariants. We show that our logic is closed under weakest precondition computation, which enables its use for automated software verification. We further show that satisfiability of formulas in TREX is decidable in NP. The low complexity makes it an attractive alternative to more expensive logics such as monadic second-order logic (MSOL) over trees, which have been traditionally used for reasoning about tree data structures.

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Author(s)
Wies, Thomas
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Muniz, Marko
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Kuncak, Viktor  
Date Issued

2011

Total of pages

23

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EPFL

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LARA  
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April 19, 2011
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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/66587
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