Proving Conditional Termination

  • Byron Cook ,
  • ,
  • Tal Lev-Ami ,
  • Andrey Rybalchenko ,
  • Mooly Sagiv

CAV '08 Proceedings of the 20th international conference on Computer Aided Verification |

Published by Springer-Verlag Berlin, Heidelberg

Publication

We describe a method for synthesizing reasonable underapproximations to weakest preconditions for termination—a long-standing open problem. The paper provides experimental evidence to demonstrate the usefulness of the new procedure.