SPLASH 2025
Sun 12 - Sat 18 October 2025 Singapore
co-located with ICFP/SPLASH 2025
Tue 14 Oct 2025 17:00 - 17:20 at Orchid East - Testing and Constraint Solving Chair(s): Yahui Song

We propose a novel approach to satisfiability checking of Constrained Horn Clauses (CHCs) over Algebraic Data Types (ADTs). CHC-based automated verification has gained considerable attention in recent years, leading to the development of various CHC solvers. However, existing solvers for CHCs over ADTs are not fully satisfactory, due to their limited ability to find and express models involving inductively defined functions/predicates (e.g., those about the sum of integer lists). To address this limitation, we consider catamorphisms (generalized fold functions), and present a framework for automatically discovering appropriate catamorphisms on demand and using them to express a model of given CHCs. We have implemented a new CHC solver called Catalia based on the proposed method. Our experimental results for the CHC-COMP 2024 benchmark show that Catalia outperforms state-of-the-art solvers in solving satisfiable CHCs over ADTs. Catalia was also used as a core part of the tool called ChocoCatalia, which won the ADT-LIA category of CHC-COMP 2025.

Tue 14 Oct

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16:00 - 17:40
Testing and Constraint SolvingSAS at Orchid East
Chair(s): Yahui Song Standard Chartered Bank
16:00
20m
Talk
Bounded-Exhaustive Subspace Diversification for SMT Solver Testing
SAS
Junda Zheng , Peisen Yao Zhejiang University
16:20
20m
Talk
Monarch: A Modular Framework for Abstract Definitional Interpreters in Haskell
SAS
Bram Vandenbogaerde Software Languages Lab, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Sarah Verbelen Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium, Noah Van Es Sofware Languages Lab, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Coen De Roover Vrije Universiteit Brussel
16:40
20m
Talk
Delta Store Semantics: Abstract Garbage Collection for Abstract Definitional Interpreters
SAS
Noah Van Es Sofware Languages Lab, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Bram Vandenbogaerde Software Languages Lab, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Coen De Roover Vrije Universiteit Brussel
17:00
20m
Talk
Automated Catamorphism Synthesis for Solving Constrained Horn Clauses over Algebraic Data Types
SAS
Hiroyuki Katsura University of Cambridge, Naoki Kobayashi University of Tokyo, Ken Sakayori University of Tokyo, Ryosuke Sato Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology
17:20
20m
Talk
Formal Analysis of Networked PLC Controllers Interacting with Physical Environments
SAS
Jaeseo Lee POSTECH, Kyungmin Bae POSTECH