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Tight polynomial bounds for Loop programs in polynomial space

Ben-Amram, Amir M. and Hamilton, Geoff orcid logoORCID: 0000-0001-5954-6444 (2019) Tight polynomial bounds for Loop programs in polynomial space. In: International Conference on Foundations of Software Science and Computation Structures, 8-11 Apr 2019, Prague, Czech Republic. ISBN 978-3-030-17126-1

Abstract
We consider the following problem: given a program, find tight asymptotic bounds on the values of some variables at the end of the computation (or at any given program point) in terms of its input values. We focus on the case of polynomially-bounded variables, and on a weak programming language for which we have recently shown that tight bounds for polynomially-bounded variables are computable. These bounds are sets of multivariate polynomials. While their computability has been settled, the complexity of this program-analysis problem remained open. In this paper, we show the problem to be PSPACE-complete. The main contribution is a new, space-efficient analysis algorithm. This algorithm is obtained in a few steps. First, we develop an algorithm for univariate bounds, a sub-problem which is already PSPACE-hard. Then, a decision procedure for multivariate bounds is achieved by reducing this problem to the univariate case; this reduction is orthogonal to the solution of the univariate problem and uses observations on the geometry of a set of vectors that represent multivariate bounds. Finally, we transform the univariate-bound algorithm to produce multivariate bounds.
Metadata
Item Type:Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Event Type:Conference
Refereed:Yes
Additional Information:The European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software.
Subjects:UNSPECIFIED
DCU Faculties and Centres:DCU Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Engineering and Computing > School of Computing
Published in: FoSSaCS 2019: Foundations of Software Science and Computation Structures. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) 11425. Springer. ISBN 978-3-030-17126-1
Publisher:Springer
Official URL:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-17127-8_5
Copyright Information:© 2019 The Authors. Open Access (CC-BY 4.0)
ID Code:27120
Deposited On:10 May 2022 15:28 by Thomas Murtagh . Last Modified 10 May 2022 15:31
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