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A logically constrained term rewrite system (LCTRS, for short) modeling a concurrent program is usually non-terminating, left-linear, and overlapping, but sometimes confluent w.r.t. an initial ground term which corresponds to an initial configuration of the program. In this paper, we show how to prove confluence of such an LCTRS w.r.t. the initial term. To be more precise, we add the rule from the initial term to a fresh constant to the LCTRS, and construct a proof tree for the all-path reachability problem from the initial term to the constant. If the directed graph obtained from the proof tree by considering it as a cyclic proof is strongly connected and each node corresponds to a single term, then all terms reachable from the initial term can be reduced back to the initial one and thus the original LCTRS is confluent w.r.t. the initial one.

Authorship：Lead author   Language：English   Publishing type：Research paper (scientific journal)   Publisher：Information Processing Society of Japan  

An all-path reachability (APR, for short) problem of a logically constrained term rewrite system (LCTRS, for short) is a pair of constrained terms representing state sets. An APR problem is demonically valid if every finite execution path from any state in the first set to an irreducible state includes a state in the second set. We have proposed a framework to reduce the non-occurrence of specified error states in a transition system represented by an LCTRS to an APR problem with irreducible constant destinations. In this paper, by focusing on quasi-termination of constrained narrowing, we characterize a class of LCTRSs of which APR problems with constant destinations are decidable. Quasi-termination of a (constrained) term w.r.t. narrowing is the finiteness of the set of reachable narrowed (constrained) terms from the initial (constrained) term up to variable renaming (and equivalence of constraints). To this end, we first introduce an inference rule for disproofs to a proof system for APR problems with constant destinations and formulate (dis)proof trees of APR problems in the style of cyclic proofs. Secondly, to prove correctness of disproof trees, we adapt constrained narrowing to LCTRSs and show soundness of constrained narrowing of LCTRSs w.r.t. constrained rewriting. Thirdly, we show a sufficient condition of LCTRSs for quasi-termination of constrained narrowing starting from linear constrained terms that have no nesting of defined symbols: Rewrite rules are right-linear and nesting-free w.r.t. defined symbols, and the application of rewrite rules for (mutually) recursive defined symbols does not increase the height of resulting constrained terms of narrowing. Finally, we show that if a constrained term is quasi-terminating w.r.t. narrowing of an LCTRS over a sort-wise finite signature with a decidable theory, then the APR problem consisting of the constrained term and an irreducible constant is decidable.

DOI： 10.2197/ipsjjip.32.417

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A concurrent program with semaphore-based exclusive control can be modeled by a logically constrained term rewrite system. In this paper, we first propose a framework to reduce the non-occurrence of a specified runtime error in the program to an all-path reachability problem of the transformed logically constrained term rewrite system. Here, an all-path reachability problem of the system is a pair of state sets and is demonically valid if every finite execution path starting with a state in the first set and ending with a terminating state includes a state in the second set. Then, we propose a weakened but easily-implementable variant of an existing proof system for all-path reachability problems. As a case study, we deal with the race freedom of concurrent programs with semaphore-based exclusive control.

DOI： 10.1016/j.jlamp.2023.100903

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As for term rewrite systems, the dependency pair (DP, for short) framework with several kinds of DP processors is useful for proving termination of logically constrained term rewrite systems (LCTRSs, for short). However, the polynomial interpretation processor is not so effective against LCTRSs with bit-vector arithmetic (BV-LCTRSs, for short). In this paper, we propose a novel DP processor for BV-LCTRSs to solve a singleton DP problem consisting of a dependency pair forming a self-loop. The processor is based on an acyclic directed graph such that the nodes are bit-vectors and any dependency chain of the problem is projected to a path of the graph. We show a sufficient condition for the existence of such an acyclic graph, and simplify it for a specific case.

DOI： 10.48550/arXiv.2307.14094

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In the last decade, several transformations of an imperative program into a logically constrained term rewrite system (LCTRS, for short) have been investigated and extended. They do not preserve the nesting of statements, generating rewrite rules like transition systems, while function calls are represented by the nesting of function symbols. Structural features of the original program must be often useful in analyzing the transformed LCTRS, but, to use such features, we have to know how to transform the program into the LCTRS, e.g., we keep the correspondence between statements in the program and the introduced auxiliary function symbols in the LCTRS. In this paper, we propose a nesting-preserving transformation of a SIMP program (a C integer program) into an LCTRS. The transformation is almost based on previous work and introduces the nesting of function symbols that correspond to statements in the original program. To be more precise, we propose a construction of a tree homomorphism which is used as a post-process of the transformation in previous work, i.e., which is applied to the LCTRS obtained from the program. As a correctness of the nesting-preserving transformation, we show that the tree homomorphism is sound and complete for the reduction of the LCTRS.

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A transformation of concurrent programs with semaphore-based exclusive control and waiting queues into logically constrained term rewrite systems (LCTRSs, for short) has been proposed. To represent waiting queues, the transformation adopts a turn waiting system with number tickets, while the use of usual lists is a straightforward approach. In this abstract, we show a list-based approach to waiting queues and compare the two approaches by means of verification of race freedom of a simple reader-writer example.

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Logically constrained term rewrite systems with the bit-vector theory (BV-LCTRSs, for short) are useful as models of programs written in C or other languages. During a process of Rewriting Induction for equivalence verification, we need to frequently prove termination of rewrite systems obtained by adding rewriting rules for induction hypotheses into a given rewrite system. As for term rewrite systems, the dependency pair (DP, for short) framework is used for proving termination of LCTRSs, and several kinds of DP processors are used in the framework. However, the polynomial interpretation processor, one of the most powerful processors in proving termination of LCTRSs with the integer theory, is not applicable to BV-LCTRSs. In this article, we aim at enhancing the power of proving termination of BV-LCTRSs. To this end, we propose the polynomial interpretation processor over bit-vectors and the single self-looping elimination processor as new DP processors for BV-LCTRSs.

Authorship：Lead author   Language：English   Publishing type：Research paper (international conference proceedings)   Publisher：Springer, Cham  

An all-path reachability problem of a logically constrained term rewrite system is a pair of constrained terms representing state sets, and is demonically valid if every finite execution path from any state in the first set to a terminating state includes a state in the second set. We have proposed a framework to reduce the non-occurrence of specified error states in a transition system represented by a logically constrained term rewrite system to an all-path reachability problem of the system. In this paper, we extend the framework to verification of starvation freedom of asynchronous integer transition systems with shared variables such that some processes enter critical sections.

DOI： 10.1007/978-3-031-24841-2_11

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A concurrent program with semaphore-based exclusive control can be transformed into a logically constrained term rewrite system that is computationally equivalent to the program. In this paper, we first propose a framework to reduce the non-occurrence of a specified runtime error in the program to an all-path reachability problem of the transformed logically constrained term rewrite system. Here, an all-path reachability problem is a pair of state sets and is true if every finite execution path starting with a state in the first set and ending with a terminating state includes a state in the second set. Then, as a case study, we show how to apply the framework to the race-freeness of semaphore-based exclusive control in the program. Finally, we show a simplified variant of a proof system for all-path reachability problems.

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To transform an imperative program into a logically constrained term rewrite system (LCTRS, for short), previous work converts a statement list to rewrite rules in a stepwise manner, and proves the correctness along such a conversion and the big-step semantics of the program. On the other hand, the small-step semantics of a programming language comprises of inference rules that define transition steps of configurations. Partial instances of such inference rules are almost the same as rewrite rules in the transformed LCTRS. In this paper, we aim at establishing a framework for plain definitions and correctness proofs of transformations from programs into LCTRSs. To this end, for the transformation in previous work, we show an injective function from configurations to terms, and reformulate the transformation by means of the injective function. The injective function maps a transition step to a reduction step, and results in a plain correctness proof.

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Authorship：Lead author   Language：English   Publishing type：Research paper (international conference proceedings)  

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To apply Logically Constrained Term Rewrite Systems (LCTRSs, for short) to program verification, a previous work targets programs that are executed sequentially. Considering actual usage of computers, it has been expected to develop a verification method for equivalence between sequentially executed programs and their concurrent versions. In this paper, we propose a transformation of programs with exclusive control based on semaphores into LCTRSs, aiming at modeling concurrent programs by LCTRSs. To this end, we first expand arguments of a function symbol that has been introduced to represent a configuration of sequential execution, so as to store all executed processes. Next, we show how to represent operations for semaphores by rewrite rules, and show a transformation of programs with exclusive control based on semaphores into LCTRSs. We manage waiting lists for semaphores by means of number checks, avoiding recursive data structures such as lists.