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Effective deductive verification of safety of distributed protocols in unbounded systems
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Mooly Sagiv - COLLOQUIUM LECTURE - RESCHEDULED
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Tuesday, 13.06.2017, 14:30
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Room 337 Taub Bld.
Safety of a distributed protocol means that the protocol never reaches a bad state, e.g., a state where two nodes become leaders in a leader-election protocol. Proving safety is obviously undecidable since such protocols are run by an unbounded number of nodes, and their safety needs to be established for any number of nodes. I will describe a deductive approach for proving safety, based on the concept of universally quantified inductive invariants --- an adaptation of the mathematical concept of induction to the domain of programs. In the deductive approach, the programmer specifies a candidate inductive invariant and the system automatically checks if it is inductive. By restricting the invariants to be universally quantified, this approach can be effectively implemented with a SAT solver. This is a joint work with Ken McMillan (MSR), Oded Padon (TAU), Aurojit Panda (Berkeley), and Sharon Shoham(TAU) and was integrated into the IVY system http://www.cs.tau.ac.il/~odedp/ivy/ The work is inspired by Shachar Itzhaky's thesis available from http://people.csail.mit.edu/shachari/ Short Bio: ========== Mooly Sagiv is a professor in the School of Computer Science at Tel-Aviv University. He graduated from the Technion in 1991. He is a leading researcher in the area of large scale (inter-procedural) program analysis, and one of the key contributors to shape analysis. His fields of interests include programming languages, compilers, abstract interpretation, profiling, pointer analysis, shape analysis, inter-procedural dataflow analysis, program slicing, and language-based programming environments. Sagiv is a recipient of a 2013 senior ERC research grant for Verifying and Synthesizing Software Composition. Prof. Sagiv served as Member of the Advisory Board of Panaya Inc acquired by Infosys. He received best-paper awards at PLDI'11 and PLDI'12 for his work on composing concurrent data structures and a ACM SIGSOFT Retrospective Impact Paper Award (2011) for program slicing. He is an ACM fellow and a recipient of Microsoft Research Outstanding Collaborator Award 2016. ========================================== Refreshments will be served from 14:15 Lecture starts at 14:30