Revising Distributed UNITY Programs Is NP-Complete

Borzoo Bonakdarpour and Sandeep S. Kulkarni

Abstract

We focus on automated revision techniques for adding \textsc{Unity} properties to distributed programs. We show that unlike centralized programs, where multiple safety properties along with one progress property can be simultaneously added in polynomial-time, addition of only one safety or one progress property to distributed programs is NP-complete. We also propose an efficient symbolic heuristic for adding a \textsf{leads-to} property to a distributed program. We demonstrate the application of this heuristic in automated synthesis of recovery paths in fault-tolerant distributed programs.

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