Decision Procedures

Decision Procedures are the basis for program verification: The task of program verification is to give a formal proof that a program meets its specification. This amounts to determining the truth value of a logical formula. A decision procedure is an algorithm that can for a certain type of formulas decide whether the formula is true or false. We will investigate decision procedures for different logics. Starting with propositional logic we will investigate decision procedures for logics with integers, reals, recursive structures (lists and trees), arrays, etc.

Course type	Lecture
Instructors	Andreas Podelski, Jochen Hoenicke, Tanja Schindler
Lecture	Tuesday, 14:00–16:00, Bld. 106, Room 00-007 Thursday, 14:00–15:00, Bld. 106, Room 00-007
Exercise	Thursday, 15:00–16:00, Bld. 106, Room 00-007
First session	Tuesday 22.10.2019
Language of instruction	English
Credits	6
Exams	t.b.a.
Course Catalog	Decision Procedures - Lecture Decision Procedures - Exercises

News

Jan 29: If the PiVC server is not responding when using the "Compile" button, you can use our server.
Menu->Settings->Change Server Address and enter "pivc.jochen-hoenicke.de:4242" as server address.
If that server is also not responding, contact Jochen.
Dec 03: Added bonus exercise for sheet 7.
Nov. 26: Theories chapter updated (added proof for ∀ x. x⋅0 = 0)
Sep. 30: Homepage online.

Formalia

Admission criteria

Half of the maximum points from the exercises have to be achieved in order to be admitted for the exam. There will be an exercise sheet each week, usually with three exercises and a maximum of 12 points. You can usually hand in your submission before the lecture on Tuesday -- alone or in groups of two.

Exam

The exam will be oral or written, depending on the number of participants.

Please register via the examination office as usual.

Resources

Course Materials

Textbooks

Bradley A. R., Manna Z.: The Calculus of Computation: Decision Procedures with Applications to Verification, 2007, Springer, New York.

Kroening D., Strichmann O.: Decision Procedures - An Algorithmic Point of View, 2008, Springer.

Papers

B. Dutertre, L. de Moura: Integrating Simplex with DPLL(T), Technical Report, SRI_CSL-06-01, 2006.

B. Dutertre, L. de Moura: A fast linear-arithmetic solver for DPLL(T), CAV 2006.

Tools and Standards

SMTInterpol (Interpolating SMT solver developed by us --- the chair of software engineering)
CVC4 (SMT solver developed by Stanford University and the University of Iowa)
Yices (SMT solver developed by Stanford Research Institute)
Z3 (SMT solver developed by Microsoft Research)
SMTLIB (A standard for encoding SMT problems which is read by many solvers)
PiVC (Tool for program verification by Stanford University)