relation: http://eprints.imtlucca.it/1383/
title: Verifying parameterized protocols by transforming stratified logic programs
creator: Pettorossi, Alberto
creator: Proietti, Maurizio
creator: Senni, Valerio
subject: QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
description: We propose a method for the specification and the automated verification of temporal properties of parameterized protocols. Our method is based on logic programming and program transformation. We specify the properties of parameterized protocols by using an extension of stratified logic programs. This extension allows premises of  clauses to contain first order formulas over arrays of parameterized length. A property of a given protocol is proved by applying suitable unfold/fold transformations to the specifiation of that protocol.We demonstrate our  method by proving that the parameterized Peterson's protocol among N processes, for any N ≥ 2, ensures the mutual exclusion property.
date: 2005
type: Conference or Workshop Item
type: PeerReviewed
identifier:   Pettorossi, Alberto and Proietti, Maurizio and Senni, Valerio  Verifying parameterized protocols by transforming stratified logic programs.  In: Italian Annual Meeting on Computational Logic (CILC'05), 21-22 June 2005, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Roma, Italy pp. 1-16.      (Submitted)   (2005)