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Record W3096653528 · doi:10.1145/3419804.3420263

Bounded Verification of State Machine Models

2020· article· en· W3096653528 on OpenAlexaff
Nafıseh Kahani, James R. Cordy

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldComputer Science
TopicFormal Methods in Verification
Canadian institutionsQueen's University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsBounded functionComputer scienceState (computer science)Theoretical computer scienceAlgorithmMathematicsMathematical analysis

Abstract

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In this work, we propose a bounded verification approach for state machine (SM) models that is independent of any model checking tools. This independence is achieved by encoding the execution semantics of SM models as Satisfiability Modulo Theories (SMT) formulas that reduce the verification of a SM to the satisfiability problem for its corresponding formula. More specifically, our approach takes as input a SM model, a depth bound, and the system properties (as invariants), and then automatically verifies models of systems in a three-phase process: (1) First it generates all possible execution paths of the model to the specified bound, and encodes each of the execution paths as SMT formulas; (2) It then augments the SMT formulas with the negation of the given invariants; and (3) Finally, it uses an SMT solver to check the satisfiability of the instrumented formula. We have applied our approach in the context of UML-RT (the UML profile for modeling real-time embedded systems) and assessed the applicability, performance, and scalability of our approach using several case studies.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Methods · Consensus signal: Methods
Teacher disagreement score0.917
Threshold uncertainty score0.198

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.001
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.069
GPT teacher head0.272
Teacher spread0.203 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreMethods

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