We consider the verification of parameterized Boolean programs- abstractions of shared-memory concurrent programs with an unbounded number of threads. We propose that such programs can be model-checked by iteratively considering the program under k-round schedules, for increasing values of k, using a novel compositional construct called linear interfaces that summarize the effect of a block of threads in a k-round schedule. We also develop a game-theoretic sound technique to show that k rounds of schedule suffice to explore the entire search-space, which allows us to prove a parameterized program entirely correct. We implement a symbolic model-checker, and report on experiments verifying parameterized predicate abstractions of Linux device drivers interacting with a kernel to show the efficacy of our technique. © 2010 Springer-Verlag.
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La Torre, S., Madhusudan, P., & Parlato, G. (2010). Model-checking parameterized concurrent programs using linear interfaces. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (Vol. 6174 LNCS, pp. 629–644). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-14295-6_54
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