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ESEC/FSE 2022
Mon 14 - Fri 18 November 2022 Singapore
Tue 15 Nov 2022 14:45 - 15:00 at SRC LT 50 - Formal Methods Chair(s): Dirk Beyer

Formal analysis is an invaluable tool for software engineers, yet state-of-the-art formal analysis techniques suffer from well-known limitations in terms of scalability. In particular, some software design domains—such as tradeoff analysis and security analysis—require systematic exploration of potentially huge model spaces, which further exacerbates the problem. Despite this present and urgent challenge, few techniques exist to support the systematic exploration of large model spaces. This paper introduces Parasol, an approach and accompanying tool suite, to improve the scalability of large-scale formal model space exploration. Parasol presents a novel parallel model space synthesis approach, backed with unsupervised learning to automatically derive domain knowledge, guiding a balanced partitioning of the model space. This allows Parasol to synthesize the models in each partition in parallel, significantly reducing synthesis time and making large-scale systematic model space exploration for real-world systems more tractable. Our empirical results corroborate that Parasol substantially reduces (by 460% on average) the time required for model space synthesis, compared to state-of-the-art model space synthesis techniques relying on both incremental and parallel constraint solving technologies as well as competing, non-learning-based partitioning methods.

Tue 15 Nov

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14:00 - 15:30
Formal MethodsResearch Papers / Demonstrations at SRC LT 50
Chair(s): Dirk Beyer LMU Munich
14:00
15m
Talk
Input Invariants
Research Papers
Dominic Steinhöfel CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security, Andreas Zeller CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security
DOI Pre-print
14:15
15m
Talk
Modus: A Datalog Dialect for Building Container Images
Research Papers
Chris Tomy University College London, Tingmao Wang University College London, Earl T. Barr University College London, Sergey Mechtaev University College London
DOI
14:30
15m
Talk
Multi-Phase Invariant Synthesis
Research Papers
Daniel Riley Florida State University, Grigory Fedyukovich Florida State University
DOI
14:45
15m
Talk
Parasol: Efficient Parallel Synthesis of Large Model Spaces
Research Papers
Clay Stevens University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Hamid Bagheri University of Nebraska-Lincoln
DOI
15:00
15m
Talk
Neural Termination Analysis
Research Papers
Mirco Giacobbe University of Birmingham, Daniel Kroening University of Oxford, Julian Parsert University of Oxford
DOI
15:15
7m
Talk
SolSEE: A Source-Level Symbolic Execution Engine for Solidity
Demonstrations
Shang-Wei Lin Nanyang Technological University, Palina Tolmach Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Institute of High Performance Computing, Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore, Ye Liu , Yi Li Nanyang Technological University
Pre-print
15:23
7m
Talk
MpBP: Verifying Robustness of Neural Networks with Multi-Path Bound Propagation
Demonstrations
Ye Zheng Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China, Jiaxiang Liu Shenzhen University, Xiaomu Shi Shenzhen University