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Program Repair for Hyperproperties

Publication Type
Year of Publication
2019
Conference/Journal Name
The 17th International Symposium on Automated Technology for Verification and Analysis (ATVA)
Page Numbers
423-441
Publisher
Springer
Abstract
We study the repair problem for hyperproperties specified in the temporal logic HyperLTL. Hyperproperties are system properties that relate multiple computation traces. This class of properties includes information flow policies like noninterference and observational determinism. The repair problem is to find, for a given Kripke structure, a substructure that satisfies a given specification. We show that the repair problem is decidable for HyperLTL specifications and finite-state Kripke structures. We provide a detailed complexity analysis for different fragments of HyperLTL and different system types: tree-shaped, acyclic, and general Kripke structures.
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Best Paper Award Finalist