POPL 2025
Sun 19 - Sat 25 January 2025 Denver, Colorado, United States

This program is tentative and subject to change.

Thu 23 Jan 2025 17:00 - 17:20 at Peek-A-Boo - Kleene Algebra with Tests

Guarded Kleene Algebra with Tests (GKAT) provides a sound and complete framework to reason about trace equivalence between simple imperative programs. However, there are still several notable limitations of GKAT: First, it is completely agnostic with respect to the meaning of primitives, to keep equivalence decidable. Second, GKAT excludes non-local control flow such as goto, break and return. To overcome these limitations, we introduce control flow GKAT (CF-GKAT), a system that allows reasoning about programs that include non-local control flow as well as hardcoded values. CF-GKAT is able to soundly and completely verify trace equivalence of a larger class of programs, while preserving the nearly linear efficiency of GKAT. This makes CF-GKAT suitable for the verification of control-flow manipulating procedures, such as decompilation and goto-elimination. To demonstrate CF-GKAT’s abilities, we validated the output of several highly non-trivial program transformations, such as Böhm-Jacopini conversion, and Erosa and Hendren’s goto-elimination procedure. CF-GKAT opens up the application of Kleene Algebra to a wider set of challenges, and provides an important verification tool that can be applied to the field of decompilation and control-flow transformation.

This program is tentative and subject to change.

Thu 23 Jan

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17:00 - 17:40
Kleene Algebra with TestsPOPL at Peek-A-Boo
17:00
20m
Talk
CF-GKAT: Efficient Validation of Control-Flow Transformations
POPL
Cheng Zhang University College London (UCL), Tobias Kappé LIACS, Leiden University, David E. Narváez Virginia Tech, Nico Naus Open University of The Netherlands & Virginia Tech
17:20
20m
Talk
Algebras for Deterministic Computation are Inherently Incomplete
POPL
Balder ten Cate ILLC, University of Amsterdam, Tobias Kappé LIACS, Leiden University