Maurice Laveaux: Correct and Efficient Antichain Algorithms for Refinement Checking


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Refinement checking plays an important role in system verification. This means that the correctness of the system is established by showing a refinement relation between two models; one for the implementation and one for the specification. Previously, Wang et al. presented an algorithm based on antichains to efficiently decide stable failures refinement and failures-divergences refinement. We have identified several issues pertaining to the correctness and performance of these algorithms and propose new, correct, antichain-based algorithms. Using a number of experiments we show that our algorithms outperform the original ones in terms of running time and memory usage.