Giorgio Delzanno wrote:

Enea, together with Ahmed Rezine (in cc) we'd like to use PPL for defining a sort of "extrapolation" method (to be applied as a subroutine of a verification process). To give you an example, suppose we compute (forward) a sequence of tuples of values (valuation of variables) like (0,0) (1,1) (2,2)... From this we would like to "extrapolate" the constraint X=Y without fixing in advance the shape of equations (e.g. Y=MX+Q) we have to consider.

Is there some kind of acceleration/widening that can be applied in this case? Thanks in advance, Giorgio ps: ... eventually, we started using PPL :>

Giorgio,

the simple case above can be modeled using several (weakly) relational abstract domains, such as polyhedra, octagonal shapes and BD shapes, and probably using several variations of the standard widening of Cousot and Halbwachs.

Practically, suppose that you choose topologically closed polyhedra (i.e., class C_Polyhedron in the C++ interface of the PPL), using the standard widening (i.e., method H79_widening_assign in the C++ interface of the PPL). Let P_0, P_1, ..., P_i, ... be the sequence of polyhedra, where each P_i is a 2-dim polyhedron defined by the constraints { x = i, y = i }. Then, you will end up computing the sequence of Q_i where

Q_0 := P_0 = { x = 0, y = 0 };

Q_1 := hull_1.H79_widening_assign(Q_0) = { x = y, y >= 0 }, where hull_1 := the poly-hull of P_1 and Q_0 = { x = y, 0 <= y <= 1 }

Q_2 := hull_2.H79_widening_assign(Q_1) = Q_1 (fixpoint) where hull_2 := the poly-hull of P_2 and Q_1 = { x = y, 0 <= y <= 2 }

Hope this is what you really meant.

Cheers, Enea.

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