FLOC 2018: FEDERATED LOGIC CONFERENCE 2018
Android Stack Machine

Authors: Taolue Chen, Jinlong He, Fu Song, Guozhen Wang, Zhilin Wu and Jun Yan

Paper Information

Title:Android Stack Machine
Authors:Taolue Chen, Jinlong He, Fu Song, Guozhen Wang, Zhilin Wu and Jun Yan
Proceedings:CAV All Papers
Editors: Georg Weissenbacher, Hana Chockler and Igor Konnov
Keywords:Android back stack, Android stack systems, Reachability problem, Decision procedure, Pushdown systems with transductions
Abstract:

ABSTRACT. In this paper, we propose Android Stack Systems (ASS), a formal model to capture key mechanisms of Android multi-tasking such as activities, the back stack, launch modes, as well as task affinities. The model is based on pushdown systems with multiple stacks, and focuses on the evolution of the back stack of the Android system when interacting with activities carrying specific launch modes and task affinities. For formal analysis, we study the reachability problem of ASS. While the general problem is shown to be undecidable, we identify expressive fragments for which various verification techniques for pushdown systems or their decidable extensions are harnessed to show that the reachability problem is decidable.

Pages:18
Talk:Jul 17 17:00 (Session 122A: CPS, Hardware, Industrial Applications)
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