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We present a sound static analysis technique for fighting the combinatorial explosion of parameterised Boolean equation systems (PBESs). These essentially are systems of mutually recursive fixed point equations ranging over first-order logic formulae. Our method detects parameters that are not live by analysing a control flow graph of a PBES, and it subsequently eliminates such parameters. We show that a naive approach to constructing a control flow graph, needed for the analysis, may suffer from an exponential blow-up, and we define an approximate analysis that avoids this problem. The effectiveness of our techniques is evaluated using a number of case studies.
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Keiren, J.J.A., Wesselink, W., Willemse, T.A.C. (2014). Liveness Analysis for Parameterised Boolean Equation Systems. In: Cassez, F., Raskin, JF. (eds) Automated Technology for Verification and Analysis. ATVA 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8837. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-11936-6_16
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