Context-Free-Language Reachability for Almost-Commuting Transition Systems
summary
Proves that the Parikh-image machinery extends to an almost-commuting monoid, giving a polynomial-time procedure that produces a Presburger formula describing the semi-linear image of an unfolded context-free language; applies that formula to compute CFL-reachability for a new class of infinite-state transition systems. The method unfolds the grammar (blowup bounded by a finite decomposition), takes the Parikh image, and returns sound, computable reachability summaries used as a practical backend for abstraction-based analyses.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Interprocedural program analysis
- 1:07Context-free languages
- 3:34Reachability relations
- 7:27Transition systems and monoids
- 8:51Limitations of commutative systems
- 9:55Almost commuting systems
- 12:24Unfolding languages for analysis
- 13:29Equivalence of program traces
- 15:39Reachability from prerick images
- 17:46Analyzability of systems
- 18:28Applications and future
- 18:53Q&A
