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On Limits and Possibilities of Automated Protocol Analysis (1987)  (Make Corrections)  (39 citations)
Gerard J. Holzmann
Proc. 6th Int. Conf on Protocol Specification, Testing, and Verification, INWG/IFIP



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Abstract: It is not likely that many traveling salesmen can be discouraged from their job by a lecture on its complexity [9]. Not surprisingly, writers of automated protocol analyzers are much the same. The problem of determining whether an arbitrary message passing system contains deadlocks is PSPACE-complete at best (for bounded queue lengths) [7-9]. Yet for any given formal analysis model it is easy to derive state space exploration routines that can find such errors with certainty -- given a... (Update)

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...expanding states. Just as for a single agent search, memory is the limiting resource. Therefore, Holzmann suggested bitstate hashing [Hol87]: instead of storing the complete state, only a single bit corresponding to the hash value is set, indicating that this state has been...

...approach aims at reducing the amount of memory needed to perform the reachability analysis. Examples of this approach are bitstate hashing [Holz87], hash compaction [WL93, SD95] etc. The use of distributed processing to combat the state explosion problem had gained interest in...

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G. J. Holzmann. On limits and possibilities of automated protocol analysis. In Protocol Specification, Testing, and Verification. 7th International Conference, pages 339--44, 1987. http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/holzmann87limits.html   More

@inproceedings{ holzmann87limits,
    author = "G.J. Holzmann",
    title = "On Limits and Possibilities of Automated Protocol Analysis",
    booktitle = "Proc. 6th Int. Conf on Protocol Specification, Testing, and Verification, {INWG}/{IFIP}",
    month = "June",
    address = "Zurich, Sw.",
    editor = "H. Rudin and C. West",
    year = "1987",
    url = "citeseer.ist.psu.edu/holzmann87limits.html" }
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