An Abstract Analysis of the Probabilistic Termination of Programs

David Monniaux

To appear at Static Analysis Symposium (SAS01), Paris, France, 16-18 July 2001


Abstract

Previous works on probabilistic abstract interpretation have addressed safety properties, but somehow neglected probabilistic termination. In this paper, we propose a method to automatically prove the probabilistic termination of programs using exponential bounds on the tail of the distribution. We apply this method to an example and explain how to implement it. We also show that this method can also be applied to make unsound statistical methods on average running times sound.


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