Showing papers by "María del Mar Prados Gallardo published in 2023"
TL;DR: The intimate relationship between model checking and abstract interpretation has been shown in a large number of relevant papers in literature as discussed by the authors , and many contributions in this area have been focussed on the practical application of abstract interpretation in the context of model checking tools.
Abstract: The intimate relationship between model checking and abstract interpretation has been shown in a large number of relevant papers in literature. Maybe the use of abstract interpretation to reduce the well-known state space explosion problem in model checking was the first and most successful combination of these two techniques. However, this is not the only possible way both methods can collaborate to improve the software reliability. Along these last 20 years, our contributions in this area have been focussed on the practical application of abstract interpretation in the context of model checking tools. From our point of view, model checking tools such as spin can be hardly improved in terms of efficiency. Thus, we have concentrated on applying abstraction to completely reuse the underlying model checkers. We have applied our ideas to different modelling and programming languages, tools and real applications. In this paper, we summarize some of these contributions.