Refining Abstractions of Hybrid Systems Using Counterexample Fragments

Joint work with E. Clarke, S. Jha, B. Krogh
Counterexample guided abstraction refinement, a powerful technique for verifying properties of discrete-state systems has been extended recently to hybrid systems verification. However, unlike in discrete systems, establishing the successor relation for hybrid systems can be a fairly expensive step since it requires evaluation and overapproximation of the continuous dynamics. It has been observed that it is often sufficient to consider fragments of counterexamples rather than complete counterexamples.

This talk presents a generalization of the idea of fragments. We extend the notion of cut sets in network flows to cutting sets of fragments in abstractions. Cutting sets of fragments are then used to guide the abstraction refinement in order to prove safety properties for hybrid systems.

Ansgar Fehnker
Recently joined researcher in the NICTA Formal Methods program

Date:Thu Dec 2 2004
Time: 1 to 2pm
Location: Level 1 Seminar Room, CSE Bldg (K17), UNSW Kensington campus

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