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The veriT Solver
Functional Description
VeriT is an open, trustable and efficient SMT (Satisfiability Modulo Theories) solver developed in cooperation with David Déharbe from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte in Natal, Brazil, on leave for Clearsy. The solver can handle large quantifier-free formulas containing uninterpreted predicates and functions, and arithmetic over integers and reals. It features efficient decision procedures for uninterpreted symbols and linear arithmetic. It also has some support for user-defined theories, quantifiers, and lambda-expressions. This allows users to easily express properties about concepts involving sets, relations, etc. The prover can produce explicit proof traces when it is used as a decision procedure for quantifier-free formulas with uninterpreted symbols and arithmetic. To support the development of the tool, non-regression tests use Inria's grid infrastructure; it allows us to extensively test the solver on thousands of benchmarks in a few minutes. The veriT solver is available as open source under the BSD license at the veriT Web site .
Efforts in 2015 have been focused on efficiency, stability, and expressiveness, with a new ability for handling non-linear arithmetic. The decision procedures for uninterpreted symbols and linear arithmetic have been further improved. The integration of the solver Redlog (section 6.1 ) for non-linear arithmetic in the context of the SMArT project (section 9.2 ) now works for quantifier-free formulas with non-linear real arithmetic, but is not yet complete for combinations.
The veriT solver participated in the SMT competition SMT-COMP 2015 with decent results.
We target applications where validation of formulas is crucial, such as the validation of TLA+ and B specifications, and work together with the developers of the respective verification platforms to make veriT even more useful in practice. The solver is available as a plugin for the Rodin platform for discharging proof obligations generated in Event-B [53] ; on a large repository of industrial and academic cases, this SMT-based plugin decreased by 75% the number of proof obligations requiring human interactions, compared to the original B prover.