Message chains for distributed system verification

F Mora, A Desai, E Polgreen, SA Seshia - Proceedings of the ACM on …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Verification of asynchronous distributed programs is challenging due to the need to reason
about numerous control paths resulting from the myriad interleaving of messages and …

Parameterized verification of round-based distributed algorithms via extended threshold automata

T Baumeister, P Eichler, S Jacobs, M Sakr… - … Symposium on Formal …, 2024 - Springer
Threshold automata are a computational model that has proven to be versatile in modeling
threshold-based distributed algorithms and enabling their completely automatic …

Quicksilver: modeling and parameterized verification for distributed agreement-based systems

N Jaber, C Wagner, S Jacobs, M Kulkarni… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
The last decade has sparked several valiant efforts in deductive verification of distributed
agreement protocols such as consensus and leader election. Oddly, there have been far …

Learning Broadcast Protocols

D Fisman, N Izsak, S Jacobs - Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on …, 2024 - ojs.aaai.org
The problem of learning a computational model from examples has been receiving growing
attention. For the particularly challenging problem of learning models of distributed systems …

Synthesis of distributed agreement-based systems with efficiently-decidable verification

N Jaber, C Wagner, S Jacobs, M Kulkarni… - … Conference on Tools …, 2023 - Springer
Distributed agreement-based (DAB) systems use common distributed agreement protocols
such as leader election and consensus as building blocks for their target functionality. While …

Enabling bounded verification of doubly-unbounded distributed agreement-based systems via bounded regions

C Wagner, N Jaber, R Samanta - Proceedings of the ACM on …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
The ubiquity of distributed agreement protocols, such as consensus, has galvanized interest
in verification of such protocols as well as applications built on top of them. The complexity …

Parameterized Verification of Systems with Precise (0, 1)-Counter Abstraction

P Eichler, S Jacobs, C Weil-Kennedy - International Conference on …, 2025 - Springer
We introduce a new framework for verifying systems with a parametric number of
concurrently running processes. The systems we consider are well-structured with respect to …

[PDF][PDF] Automating Cutoff-based Verification of Distributed Protocols

SG Bhat, K Nagar - 2023 Formal Methods in Computer-Aided …, 2023 - library.oapen.org
Distributed protocols are generally parametric and are expected to work correctly on
systems containing any number of nodes. Therefore, proving their correctness becomes an …

Formal Methods: 26th International Symposium, FM 2024, Milan, Italy, September 9–13, 2024, Proceedings, Part I

A Platzer, KY Rozier, M Pradella, M Rossi - 2025 - library.oapen.org
The open access book set LNCS 14933+ 14934 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the
26th International Symposium on Formal Methods, FM 2024, which took place in Milan, Italy …

Automatic WSTS-based Repair and Deadlock Detection of Parameterized Systems

T Baumeister, S Jacobs, M Sakr, M Völp - 2024 - researchsquare.com
We present an algorithm for the repair of parameterized systems that can be represented as
well-structured transition systems. The repair problem is, for a given process …