@InProceedings{ duret.16.atva, author = {Alexandre Duret-Lutz and Fabrice Kordon and Denis Poitrenaud and Etienne Renault}, title = {Heuristics for Checking Liveness Properties with Partial Order Reductions}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 14th International Symposium on Automated Technology for Verification and Analysis (ATVA'16)}, series = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science}, publisher = {Springer}, volume = {????}, pages = {??--??}, year = {2016}, month = oct, abstract = {Checking liveness properties with partial-order reductions requires a cycle proviso to ensure that an action cannot be postponed forever. The proviso forces each cycle to contain at least one fully expanded state. We present new heuristics to select which state to expand, hoping to reduce the size of the resulting graph. The choice of the state to expand is done when encountering a \emph{dangerous} edge. Almost all existing provisos expand the source of this edge, while this paper also explores the expansion of the destination and the use of SCC-based information.}, note = {To appear.} } @InProceedings{ duret.16.atva2, author = {Alexandre Duret-Lutz and Alexandre Lewkowicz and Amaury Fauchille and Thibaud Michaud and Etienne Renault and Laurent Xu}, title = {Spot 2.0 --- a framework for {LTL} and $\omega$-automata manipulation}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 14th International Symposium on Automated Technology for Verification and Analysis (ATVA'16)}, series = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science}, publisher = {Springer}, volume = {????}, pages = {??--??}, year = {2016}, month = oct, pdf = {adl/duret.16.atva2.pdf}, abstract = {We present Spot 2.0, a C++ library with Python bindings and an assortment of command-line tools designed to manipulate LTL and $\omega$-automata in batch. New automata-manipulation tools were introduced in Spot 2.0; they support arbitrary acceptance conditions, as expressible in the Hanoi Omega Automaton format. Besides being useful to researchers who have automata to process, its Python bindings can also be used in interactive environments to teach $\omega$-automata and model checking.}, note = {To appear.} }