Size-change termination analysis in k-bits

Michael Codish, Vitaly Lagoon, Peter Schachte, Peter J. Stuckey

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Abstract

Size-change termination analysis is a simple and powerful technique successfully applied for a variety of programming paradigms. A main advantage is that termination for size-change graphs is decidable and based on simple linear ranking functions. A main disadvantage is that the size-change termination problem is PSPACE-complete. Proving size change termination may have to consider exponentially many size change graphs. This paper is concerned with the representation of large sets of size-change graphs. The approach is constraint based and the novelty is that sets of size-change graphs are represented as disjunctions of size-change constraints. A constraint solver to facilitate size-change termination analysis is obtained by interpreting size-change constraints over a sufficiently large but finite non-negative integer domain. A Boolean k-bit modeling of size change graphs using binary decision diagrams leads to a concise representation. Experimental evaluation indicates that the 2-bit representation facilitates an efficient implementation which is guaranteed complete for our entire benchmark suite.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProgramming Languages and Systems - 15th European Symposium on Programming, ESOP 2006, Held as Part of the Joint European Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2006, Proceedings
Pages230-245
Number of pages16
DOIs
StatePublished - 14 Jul 2006
Event15th European Symposium on Programming, ESOP 2006. Held as Part of the Joint European Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2006 - Vienna, Austria
Duration: 27 Mar 200628 Mar 2006

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume3924 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference15th European Symposium on Programming, ESOP 2006. Held as Part of the Joint European Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2006
Country/TerritoryAustria
CityVienna
Period27/03/0628/03/06

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • General Computer Science

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