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VCC: A Practical System for Verifying Concurrent C

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This paper motivates VCC, describes the verification methodology, the architecture of VCC is described, and the experience using VCC to verify the Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisor is reported on.
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VCC is an industrial-strength verification environment for low-level concurrent system code written in C. VCC takes a program (annotated with function contracts, state assertions, and type invariants) and attempts to prove the correctness of these annotations. It includes tools for monitoring proof attempts and constructing partial counterexample executions for failed proofs. This paper motivates VCC, describes our verification methodology, describes the architecture of VCC, and reports on our experience using VCC to verify the Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisor.

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Dissertation

Invariant discovery and refinement plans for formal modelling in Event-B

TL;DR: This thesis focuses on techniques to aid refinement-based formal modelling, specifically, when a user requires guidance in order to overcome a failed refinement step, and proposes a new technique called refinement plans, which combines both modelling and reasoning knowledge, and allows the analysis of failure and partial matching.

Verification Condition Generation with the Dijkstra State Monad

TL;DR: A new unificationbased type inference algorithm is defined, which succeeds in computing verification conditions for higher-order stateful programs and is complete with respect to a simple surface-level typing judgment, resembling ML type inference.
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Modular Specification and Verification of Delegation with SMT Solvers

TL;DR: This paper presents an expressive specification and verification methodology, in which partial correctness reasoning about delegation can be carried out in first order logic, using automated SMT solvers.

Reasoning About Vote Counting Schemes Using Light-weight and Heavy-weight Methods

TL;DR: This work compares and contrast the experiences in specifying, implementing and verifying the monotonicity property of a simple plurality voting scheme using modern light-weight and heavy-weight verification tools.
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Separation logic: a logic for shared mutable data structures

TL;DR: An extension of Hoare logic that permits reasoning about low-level imperative programs that use shared mutable data structure is developed, including extensions that permit unrestricted address arithmetic, dynamically allocated arrays, and recursive procedures.
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Amortised Memory Analysis Using the Depth of Data Structures

TL;DR: A related system for bounding the stack space requirements is described which uses the depth of data structures, by expressing potential in terms of maxima as well as sums, by adding extra structure to typing contexts to describe the form of the bounds.