Applying abstract acceleration to (co-)reachability analysis of reactive programs

Abstract

Acceleration methods are commonly used for computing precisely the effects of loops in the reachability analysis of counter machine models. Applying these methods on synchronous data-flow programs, e.g. Lustre programs, requires to deal with the non-deterministic transformations due to numerical input variables. In this article, we address this problem by extending the concept of abstract acceleration of Gonnord et al. to numerical input variables. Moreover, we describe the dual analysis for co-reachability. We compare our method with some alternative techniques based on abstract interpretation pointing out its advantages and limitations. At last, we give some experimental results.