Sharon
Shoham Buchbinder
I am a professor in the School of Computer Science
at Tel
Aviv University.
My
main areas of research are formal verification and program analysis.
Prospective students:
I'm looking for strong PhD students, postdocs and visiting scholars, as part of
a 5-year ERC grant on “Supervised verification of
infinite-state systems”. If you are interested, please send me an email
including your CV. You are also encouraged to include letters of reference.
Contact Information
School of
Computer Science,
Checkpoint
building, room 343
Tel Aviv University
Email:
sharon.shoham 'at' gmail.com
Service
Conference Organization:
34th
International Conference on Computer Aided
Verification (CAV) 2022. Program co-chair, together with Yakir Vizel.
22nd
International Conference on Verification,
Model Checking, and Abstract Interpretation (VMCAI) 2021. Program co-chair,
together with Fritz Henglein and Yakir Vizel.
Workshop Organization:
Best of
Model Checking (BeMC) workshop, July 13th,
2019, New York, co-located with CAV
2019. Co-chaired with Yakir Vizel.
Program committee member:
2025 31st International Conference on Tools and Algorithms
for the Construction and Analysis of Systems (TACAS'25)
2025 Associate Chair for 52nd ACM SIGPLAN
Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages (POPL'25)
2024 36th International Conference on Computer Aided
Verification (CAV'24)
2024 30th International Conference on Tools and
Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems (TACAS'24)
2023 35th International Conference on Computer Aided
Verification (CAV'23)
2023 29th International Conference on Tools and
Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems (TACAS'23)
2022 International Conference on Formal Methods in
Computer-Aided Design (FMCAD'22)
2021 33rd International Conference on Computer Aided
Verification (CAV'21)
2020 32nd International Conference on Computer Aided Verification
(CAV'20)
2019 31st International Conference on Computer Aided
Verification (CAV'19)
2019 ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language
Design and Implementation (PLDI'19), Extended Review Committee (ERC)
member
2019 20th International Conference on Verification,
Model Checking, and Abstract Interpretation (VMCAI'19)
2018 International Conference on Formal Methods in
Computer-Aided Design (FMCAD'18)
2018 30th International Conference on Computer Aided
Verification (CAV'18)
2017 ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language
Design and Implementation (PLDI'17)
2017 44th ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles of
Programming Languages (POPL'17)
2016 16th conference on Formal Methods in Computer
Aided Design (FMCAD'16)
2016 28th International Conference on Computer Aided
Verification (CAV'16)
2016 17th International Conference on Verification,
Model Checking, and Abstract Interpretation (VMCAI'16)
2015 11th Haifa Verification Conference (HVC'15)
2015 27th International Conference on Computer Aided Verification
(CAV'15)
2014 10th Haifa Verification Conference (HVC'14)
2013 4th International Symposium on Games, Automata,
Logics, and Formal Verification (GANDALF'13)
Recent Talks
·
From
Concept Learning to SAT-Based Invariant Inference. 43rd
conference on Foundations
of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science (FSTTCS) 2023, IIIT
Hyderabad, India, December 2023. [slides]
·
Towards a
Theoretical Understanding of Property-Directed Reachability. 24th
International Conference on Verification,
Model Checking, and Abstract Interpretation (VMCAI) 2023, co-located with
POPL’23, Boston, MA, USA, January 2023. [slides]
·
SAT-Based
Invariant Inference and Its Relation to Concept Learning. 16th
International Conference on Reachability
Problems (RP) 2022, Kaiserslautern, Germany, October 2022. [pdf] [slides]
·
Verification
of Distributed Protocols Using Decidable Logic. Programming
Languages Mentoring Workshop (PLMW) 2019, Cascais,
Portugal, January 2019. [slides]
·
Interactive
Verification of Distributed Protocols Using Decidable Logic. 25th
Static
Analysis Symposium, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany, August 2018. [slides]
·
Verification
of Infinite-State Systems Using Decidable Logic. Verification and Deduction Mentoring Workshop, co-located
with the Federated Logic Conference (FLOC’18), Oxford, UK, July 2018. [slides]
·
Safety
Verification of Stateful Networks.
Fourth Workshop on Networking and Programming Languages (NetPL),
co-located with POPL’18, Los Angeles, CA, USA, January, 2018. [slides]
·
Interactive
Verification of Distributed Protocols. Workshop on Software
Correctness and Reliability, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland, October 2017. [slides]
·
Synthesizing
Universally-Quantified Inductive Invariants. 6th
Workshop on Synthesis (SYNT), collocated with the 29th International
Conference on Computer Aided Verification (CAV), Heidelberg, Germany, 2017. [slides]
Book Chapter
·
Static
Specification Mining Using Automata-Based Abstractions. Eran
Yahav, Sharon Shoham, Stephen Fink and Marco Pistoia. Chapter 6 in Book on
Mining Software Specifications: Methodologies and Applications. Editors: David
Lo, Siau-Cheng Khoo, Chao
Liu, and Jiawei Han. Published in Data Mining and
Knowledge Discovery Book Series by CRC Press, April 2011.
Conference and Workshop
Publications
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· Implicit Rankings for Verifying
Liveness Properties in First-Order Logic. Raz Lotan and Sharon
Shoham, In Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Tools and
Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems (TACAS) 2025. [pdf] [arxiv] · Axe 'Em:
Eliminating Spurious States with Induction Axioms. Neta
Elad and Sharon Shoham, In Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages
(PACMPL), POPL 2025. [pdf]
[arxiv] · A Primal-Dual Perspective on
Program Verification Algorithms. Takeshi Tsukada, Hiroshi Unno, Oded Padon and
Sharon Shoham, In Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages
(PACMPL), POPL 2025. Distinguished paper award [pdf] [arxiv] · Hyperproperty-Preserving Register Specifications. Yoav Ben Shimon, Ori Lahav and Sharon Shoham,
In Proceedings of the 38th International Symposium on Distributed
Computing (DISC) 2024. Best paper award and best student paper award
[pdf] [arxiv] · Proving Cutoff Bounds for Safety
Properties in First-Order Logic. Raz Lotan, Eden Frenkel and Sharon Shoham, In
Proceedings of the 22nd International Symposium on Automated Technology for
Verification and Analysis (ATVA) 2024. [pdf] [arxiv] · Efficient Implementation of an
Abstract Domain of Quantified First-Order Formulas. Eden
Frenkel, Tej Chajed, Oded Padon and Sharon Shoham, In Proceedings of the
36th International Conference on Computer Aided Verification (CAV) 2024. [pdf] [arxiv] · mypyvy: A Research Platform for Verification of Transition Systems
in First-Order Logic. James R. Wilcox, Yotam M. Y. Feldman, Oded Padon
and Sharon Shoham, In Proceedings of the 36th International Conference on
Computer Aided Verification (CAV) 2024. [pdf] · Hyperproperty Verification as CHC Satisfiability. Shachar
Itzhaky, Sharon Shoham and Yakir Vizel, In Proceedings of the 33rd
European Symposium on Programming (ESOP) 2024. [pdf] [arxiv]
[artifact] · Speculative SAT Modulo SAT. Hari
Govind V. K., Isabel Garcia-Contreras, Sharon Shoham and Arie Gurfinkel, In
Proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Tools and Algorithms for
the Construction and Analysis of Systems (TACAS) 2024. [pdf] · An Infinite Needle in a Finite
Haystack: Finding Infinite Counter-Models in Deductive Verification. Neta
Elad, Oded Padon and Sharon Shoham, In Proceedings of the ACM on
Programming Languages (PACMPL), POPL 2024. Distinguished paper award
[pdf] [arxiv] · State Merging with Quantifiers in
Symbolic Execution. David Trabish, Noam Rinetzky, Sharon Shoham and Vaibhav Sharma, In Proceedimgs
of the ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on
the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE), December 2023. [pdf] [arxiv] · Counterexample Driven Quantifier Instantiations
with Applications to Distributed Protocols, Orr
Tamir, Marcelo Taube, Kenneth L. McMillan, Sharon Shoham, Jon Howell, Guy Gueta,and Mooly Sagiv, In
Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages (PACMPL), OOPSLA, 2023. [pdf] ·
Fast Approximations of Quantifier Elimination, Isabel
Garcia-Contreras, Hari Govind V. K., Sharon Shoham and Arie Gurfinkel, In
Proceedings of the 35th International Conference on Computer Aided
Verification (CAV) 2023. Distinguished paper award [pdf] [arxiv]
· Invariant Inference with Provable
Complexity from the Monotone Theory. Yotam M. Y. Feldman and
Sharon Shoham, In Proceedings of the 29th Static Analysis Symposium (SAS),
Auckland, New Zealand, 2022. [pdf] [arxiv] · Inferring Invariants with
Quantifier Alternations: Taming the Search Space Explosion. Jason
R. Koenig, Oded Padon, Sharon Shoham and Alex Aiken, In proceedings of the
28th International Conference on Tools and Algorithms for the Construction
and Analysis of Systems (TACAS) 2022. [pdf] [arxiv] · Property-directed reachability as
abstract interpretation in the monotone theory. Yotam
M. Y. Feldman, Mooly Sagiv, Sharon Shoham and James R. Wilcox, In Proceedings
of the ACM on Programming Languages (PACMPL), POPL 2022. [pdf] [arxiv] · Solving constrained Horn clauses
modulo algebraic data types and recursive functions. Hari
Govind V. K., Sharon Shoham and Arie Gurfinkel, In Proceedings of the ACM
on Programming Languages (PACMPL) , POPL 2022. [pdf] · Cost-effective capacity provisioning
in wide area networks with Shoofly. Rachee
Singh, Nikolaj S. Bjørner,
Sharon Shoham, Yawei Yin, John Arnold and Jamie Gaudette, In ACM SIGCOMM Conference 2021. [link] · Logical Characterization of
Coherent Uninterpreted Programs. Hari
Govind V. K., Sharon Shoham and Arie Gurfinkel, In Proceedings of Formal
Methods in Computer-Aided Design (FMCAD) 2021. [pdf] [arxiv] · Run-time Complexity Bounds Using
Squeezers. Oren Ish-Shalom,
Shachar Itzhaky, Noam Rinetzky and Sharon Shoham, In Proceedings of the
30th European Symposium on Programming (ESOP) 2021. [pdf] · Learning the boundary of inductive
invariants. Yotam M. Y. Feldman, Mooly Sagiv, Sharon Shoham
and James R. Wilcox, In Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages
(PACMPL), POPL 2021. [pdf] [arxiv] · Proving highly-concurrent
traversals correct. Yotam M. Y. Feldman, Artem Khyzha, Constantin
Enea, Adam Morrison, Aleksandar Nanevski, Noam Rinetzky and Sharon Shoham, In
Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages (PACMPL), OOPSLA 2020. [pdf] [arxiv] ·
Global Guidance for Local Generalization in Model Checking. Hari
Govind Vediramana
Krishnan, YuTing Chen, Sharon Shoham and Arie
Gurfinkel, In Proceedings of the 32nd International Conference
on Computer Aided Verification (CAV) 2020. [pdf] [arxiv] · Complexity and information in invariant inference. Yotam M. Y. Feldman, Neil Immerman, Mooly Sagiv and Sharon Shoham, In Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages (PACMPL), POPL 2020. [pdf] [arxiv] · Putting the Squeeze on Array
Programs: Loop Verification via Inductive Rank Reduction. Oren
Ish-Shalom, Shachar Itzhaky, Noam Rinetzky and
Sharon Shoham, In Proceedings of the 21st International
Conference on Verification, Model Checking, and Abstract Interpretation
(VMCAI), New Orleans, LA, USA, January 2020. [pdf] [arxiv] · Solving LIA* Using Approximations. Maxwell
Levatich, Nikolaj Bjørner, Ruzica Piskac and
Sharon Shoham, In Proceedings of the 21st International
Conference on Verification, Model Checking, and Abstract Interpretation (VMCAI),
New Orleans, LA, USA, January 2020. [pdf] · Verification of Threshold-based
Distributed Algorithms by Decomposition to Decidable Logics. Idan Berkovits, Marijana Lazic, Giuliano Lossa, Oded Padon
and Sharon Shoham, In Proceedings of the 31st International
Conference on Computer Aided Verification (CAV) 2019. [pdf] [arxiv] · Property Directed Self Composition.
Ron Shemer, Arie Gurfinkel, Sharon Shoham and Yakir Vizel, In
Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Computer Aided
Verification (CAV) 2019. [pdf]
[arxiv] · Inferring Inductive Invariants from
Phase Structures. Yotam M. Y. Feldman, James R. Wilcox, Sharon
Shoham and Mooly Sagiv, In Proceedings of the 31st
International Conference on Computer Aided Verification (CAV) 2019. [pdf] [arxiv] · Order out of Chaos: Proving Linearizability Using Local Views. Yotam
M. Y. Feldman, Constantin Enea, Adam Morrison, Noam Rinetzky and Sharon
Shoham, In Proceedings of the International Symposium on DIStributed Computing (DISC), New Orleans, USA, October
2018. [pdf]
[arxiv] · Temporal Prophecy for Proving
Temporal Properties of Infinite-State Systems. Oded
Padon, Jochen Hoenicke, Kenneth L. McMillan, Andreas Podelski, Mooly Sagiv
and Sharon Shoham, In Proceedings of Formal Methods in
Computer-Aided Design (FMCAD), University of Texas, Austin, Texas, 30 Oct - 2
Nov, 2018. [pdf]
[arxiv] · Quantifiers on Demand. Arie
Gurfinkel, Sharon Shoham and Yakir Vizel, In Proceedings of the
International Symposium on Automated Technology for Verification and Analysis
(ATVA), Los Angeles, USA, October 2018. [pdf] [arxiv] · Modular Verification of Concurrent
Programs via Sequential Model Checking. Dan Rasin,
Orna Grumberg and Sharon Shoham, In Proceedings of the
International Symposium on Automated Technology for Verification and Analysis
(ATVA), Los Angeles, USA, October 2018. [pdf] [arxiv] · Inferring Program Extensions from
Traces. Roman Manevich and Sharon Shoham, In Proceedings
of the 14th International Conference on Grammatical Inference (ICGI), Wrocław, Poland, September 2018. [pdf] · Abstract Interpretation of Stateful Network. Kalev Alpernas, Roman
Manevich, Aurojit Panda, Mooly Sagiv, Scott Shenker,
Sharon Shoham and Yaron Velner,
In Proceedings of the 25th Static Analysis Symposium
(SAS), Freiburg im Breisgau,
Germany, August 2018. [pdf]
[arxiv] · Discovering Universally Quantified
Solutions for Constrained Horn Clauses. Arie Gurfinkel, Sharon
Shoham and Yakir Vizel, International Workshop on Satisfiability Modulo
Theories (SMT), July 2018, Oxford, UK, Affiliated with IJCAR 2018, part of FLoC 2018. [pdf] · Modularity for decidability of
deductive verification with applications to distributed systems. Marcelo
Taube, Giuliano Losa, Kenneth L. McMillan, Oded Padon, Mooly Sagiv, Sharon
Shoham, James R. Wilcox and Doug Woos, In Proceedings of the 39th
ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation
(PLDI) 2018. [pdf]
· Programming Not Only by Example. Hila
Peleg, Sharon Shoham and Eran Yahav, In Proceedings of the 40th
International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) 2018. [pdf] · Reducing liveness to safety in
first-order logic. Oded Padon, Jochen Hoenicke, Giuliano Losa, Andreas
Podelski, Mooly Sagiv and Sharon Shoham, In Proceedings of the ACM on
Programming Languages (POPL) 2018. [pdf] [web] · Abstraction-Based Interaction Model
for Synthesis. Hila Peleg, Shachar Itzhaky and Sharon Shoham, In
Proceedings of the International Conference on Verification, Model Checking,
and Abstract Interpretation (VMCAI) 2018. [pdf] · Paxos made EPR: decidable reasoning about distributed protocols. Oded
Padon, Giuliano Losa, Mooly Sagiv and Sharon Shoham, In Proceedings of the ACM on Programming
Languages (OOPSLA) 2017. [pdf]
[web] · RATCOP: Relational Analysis Tool
for Concurrent Programs. Suvam Mukherjee, Oded Padon, Sharon Shoham,
Deepak D'Souza and Noam Rinetzky, In
Proceedings of the Haifa Verification Conference (HVC) 2017. [pdf] · Thread-Local Semantics and its
Efficient Sequential Abstractions for Race-Free Programs. Suvam
Mukherjee, Oded Padon, Sharon Shoham, Deepak D'Souza and Noam Rinetzky, In proceedings of the 24th Static Analysis
Symposium (SAS) 2017. [pdf] · Synthesis with Abstract Examples. Dana
Drachsler Cohen, Sharon Shoham, and Eran Yahav, In proceedings of the 29th International
Conference on Computer Aided Verification (CAV) 2017. [pdf] · Bounded Quantifier Instantiation
for Checking Inductive Invariants. Yotam M. Y. Feldman, Oded Padon, Neil Immerman,
Mooly Sagiv, and Sharon Shoham, In
proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Tools and Algorithms for
the Construction and Analysis of Systems (TACAS) 2017. [pdf] · IC3 - Flipping the E in ICE. Yakir
Vizel, Arie Gurfinkel, Sharon Shoham and Sharad Malik, In proceedings of the International Conference on
Verification, Model Checking, and Abstract Interpretation (VMCAI) 2017. [pdf] · Property Directed Reachability for
Proving Absence of Concurrent Modification Errors. Asya Frumkin, Yotam M. Y. Feldman, Ondrej Lhotak, Oded Padon, Mooly Sagiv and Sharon Shoham, In proceedings of the International Conference on
Verification, Model Checking, and Abstract Interpretation (VMCAI) 2017. [pdf] · Synthesis of Forgiving Data
Extractors. Adi Omari, Sharon Shoham and Eran Yahav, In proceedings of the ACM conference on Web
Search and Dada Mining (WSDM) 2017. [pdf] · SMT-Based Verification of
Parameterized Systems. Arie Gurfinkel, Sharon Shoham and Yuri Meshman, In
proceedings of the ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on the Foundations of
Software Engineering (FSE) 2016. [pdf] · Lossless Separation of Web Pages
into Layout Code and Data. Adi
Omari, Benny Kimelfeld, Sharon Shoham and Eran
Yahav, In proceedings of the 22nd ACM SIGKDD Conference on
Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), pages 1805-1814, 2016. [pdf] · Automated Circular Assume-Guarantee
Reasoning with N-way Decomposition and Alphabet Refinement. Karam Abd Elkader, Orna
Grumberg, Corina S. Pasareanu and Sharon Shoham, In proceedings of the 28th International
Conference on Computer Aided Verification (CAV), pages 329-351, 2016. [pdf] · Ivy: safety verification by
interactive generalization. Oded Padon, Kenneth L. McMillan, Aurojit Panda,
Mooly Sagiv and Sharon Shoham, In
proceedings of 37th annual ACM SIGPLAN conference on Programming Language
Design and Implementation (PLDI), pages 614-630, 2016. [pdf] [artifact] · Cross Supervised Synthesis of
Web-Crawlers. Adi Omari, Sharon Shoham and Eran Yahav, In proceedings of the International Conference on
Software Engineering (ICSE), pages 368-379, 2016. [pdf] · Some Complexity Results for Stateful Network Verification. Yaron Velner, Kalev Aplernas, Aurojit Panda, Alexander Rabinovich, Mooly Sagiv, Scott Shenker, and Sharon Shoham, In proceedings of the International Conference on
Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems (TACAS),
pages 811-830, 2016. [pdf] · Property Directed Abstract
Interpretation. Noam Rinetzky and Sharon Shoham, In proceedings of the 17th International
Conference on Verification, Model Checking, and Abstract Interpretation
(VMCAI), pages 104-123, 2016. Best paper award. [pdf] · D3: Data-Driven Disjunctive
Abstraction. Hila Peleg, Sharon Shoham, and Eran Yahav, In proceedings of the 17th International
Conference on Verification, Model Checking, and Abstract Interpretation
(VMCAI), pages 185-205, 2016. [pdf] · Decidability of Inferring Inductive
Invariants. Oded Padon, Neil Immerman, Sharon Shoham, Aleksandr
Karbyshev, and Mooly Sagiv, In proceedings of the 43nd ACM SIGPLAN-SIGACT
Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages (POPL), pages 217-231, 2016. [pdf] · Property-Directed Inference of
Universal Invariants or Proving Their Absence. Aleksandr Karbyshev, Nikolaj Bjorner, Shachar Itzhaky, Noam Rinetzky and Sharon
Shoham, In
proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Computer Aided
Verification (CAV), pages 583-602, 2015. [pdf] Invited to
Journal of the ACM. · Automated Circular Assume-Guarantee
Reasoning. Karam Abd Elkader, Orna
Grumberg, Corina S. Pasareanu and Sharon Shoham, In proceedings of the 20th International
Symposium on Formal Methods (FM), 2015. [pdf] Invited to
special issue in the Formal Aspects of Computing journal. · Decentralizing SDN Policies. Oded Padon, Neil Immerman, Aleksandr Karbyshev, Ori Lahav, Mooly Sagiv and Sharon Shoham, In proceedings of the 42nd ACM SIGPLAN-SIGACT
Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages (POPL), 2015. [pdf] · Symbolic Automata for Static Specification
Mining. Hila Peleg, Sharon Shoham, Eran Yahav and
Hongseok Yang, In
proceedings of the International Static Analysis Symposium (SAS), 2013. [pdf] · Intertwined Forward-Backward
Reachability Analysis Using Interpolants. Yakir Vizel, Orna
Grumberg and Sharon Shoham, In proceedings of the International Conference
on Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems (TACAS),
2013. [pdf] · Lazy Abstraction and SAT-Based
Reachability in Hardware Model Checking. Yakir Vizel, Orna
Grumberg and Sharon Shoham, In proceedings of the International Conference
on Formal Methods in Computer-Aided Design (FMCAD), 2012. [pdf] |
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· Typestate-Based Semantic Code Search over Partial Programs. Alon Mishne, Sharon Shoham
and Eran Yahav, In
proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Object-Oriented Programming,
Systems, Languages and Applications (OOPSLA), 2012. [pdf] |
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· A Framework For Compositional Verification of Multi-Valued Systems Via Abstraction-Refinement. Yael Meller, Orna Grumberg, and Sharon Shoham, In proceedings of the 7th international symposium on Automated Technology for Verification and Analysis (ATVA), 2009. [pdf] |
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· State focusing: Lazy abstraction for the mu-calculus. Harald Fecher and Sharon Shoham, In proceedings of the 15th International Workshop on Model Checking Software (SPIN'08), volume 5156 of LNCS, pages 95-113, Los Angeles, USA, August 2008. [pdf] |
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· Compositional Verification and 3-Valued Abstractions Join Forces. Sharon Shoham and Orna Grumberg, In proceedings of the 14th International Static Analysis Symposium (SAS'07), volume 4634 of LNCS, pages 69-86, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark, August 2007. [pdf] |
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· Static Specification Mining Using Automata-Based Abstractions. Sharon Shoham, Eran Yahav, Stephen Fink and Marco Pistoia, In proceedings of the International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA'07), pages 174-184, London, United Kingdom, July 2007. Best paper award. [pdf] |
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·
Local abstraction-refinement for the mu-calculus.
Harald Fecher and Sharon Shoham, In proceedings
of the 14th International Workshop on Model Checking Software (SPIN'07),
volume 4595 of LNCS, pages 4-23, Berlin, Germany, July 2007. [pdf] |
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3-Valued Abstraction: More Precision at Less Cost. Sharon Shoham and Orna Grumberg, In
proceedings of the 21st Annual IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science (LICS'06),
pages 399-408, Seattle, Washington, August 2006. [pdf] |
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Multi-Valued Model Checking Games. Sharon Shoham and Orna Grumberg, In
proceedings of the third international symposium on Automated Technology for
Verification and Analysis (ATVA'05), volume 3707 of LNCS, pages 354-369,
Taipei, Taiwan, October 2005. [pdf] |
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·
Don't Know in the mu-Calculus. Orna Grumberg, Martin Lange, Martin Leucker and
Sharon Shoham, In proceedings of the 6th international conference on
Verification, Model Checking and Abstract Interpretation (VMCAI'05), volume 3385 of LNCS, pages 233-249,
Paris, France, January 2005. [pdf] |
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·
Monotonic Abstraction-Refinement for CTL.
Sharon Shoham and Orna Grumberg, In proceedings of the 10th international
conference on Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of
Systems (TACAS'04), volume 2988 of
LNCS, pages 546-560,
Barcelona, Spain, March-April 2004. [pdf] |
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·
A Game-Based Framework for CTL Counterexamples and 3-Valued
Abstraction-Refinement. Sharon Shoham and Orna Grumberg, In proceedings
of the 15th international conference on Computer Aided Verification (CAV'03),
volume 2725 of LNCS, pages 275-287, Boulder, Colorado, July 2003. [pdf] |
Journal Publications
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· Global guidance for local generalization in model checking. Hari Govind Vediramana Krishnan, YuTing Chen, Sharon Shoham and Arie Gurfinkel, Formal Methods in System Design (FMSD) 63(1): 81-109, 2024. Special issue of CAV’20-21 [link] [arxiv] · Runtime Complexity Bounds Using Squeezers. Oren Ish-Shalom, Shachar Itzhaky, Noam Rinetzky and Sharon Shoham, ACM Trans. Program. Lang. Syst. (TOPLAS) 44(3): 17:1-17:36, 2022. [link] [arxiv] · Temporal prophecy for proving temporal properties of infinite-state systems. Oded Padon, Jochen Hoenicke, Kenneth L. McMillan, Andreas Podelski, Mooly Sagiv and Sharon Shoham, Formal Methods in System Design (FMSD) 57(2): 246-269, 2021. [link] [arxiv] · Programming by Predicates: A formal model for interactive synthesis. Hila Peleg, Shachar Itzhaky, Sharon Shoham and Eran Yahav, Acta Informatica, Volume 57 Number 1-2, Special Issue on Synthesis, Pages 165–193, 2020. [pdf] · Some complexity results for stateful network verification. Kalev Alpernas, Aurojit Panda, Alexander Rabinovich, Mooly Sagiv, Scott Shenker, Sharon Shoham and Yaron Velner, Formal Methods in System Design (FMSD), Volume 54, Number 2, Pages 191-231, 2019. [pdf] [arxiv] · Bounded Quantifier Instantiation for Checking Inductive Invariants. Yotam M. Y. Feldman, Oded Padon, Neil Immerman, Mooly Sagiv and Sharon Shoham, Logical Methods in Computer Science (LMCS), Volume 15, Number 3, 2019. [pdf] [arxiv] · Automated circular assume-guarantee reasoning. Karam Abd Elkader, Orna Grumberg, Corina S. Pasareanu and Sharon Shoham, Formal Aspects of Computing, special issue of FM’15, Volume 30, Number 5, Pages 571-595, 2018. [pdf] · Property-Directed Inference of Universal Invariants or Proving Their Absence. Aleksandr Karbyshev, Nikolaj Bjorner, Shachar Itzhaky, Noam Rinetzky and Sharon Shoham, Journal of the ACM, Volume 64, Number 1, Pages 7:1-7:33, 2017. [pdf] · A Framework for Compositional Verification of Multi-valued Systems via Abstraction-Refinement. Yael Meller, Orna Grumberg and Sharon Shoham, Information and Computation, Volume 247, Pages 169-202, 2016. [pdf] · Symbolic Automata for Representing Big Code. Hila Peleg, Sharon Shoham, Eran Yahav and and Hongseok Yang, Special issue of Acta Informatica devoted to COST Action IC0901, Volume 53, Number 4, Pages 327-356, 2016. [pdf] · Multi-Valued Model Checking Games. Sharon Shoham and Orna Grumberg, Journal of Computer and System Sciences (JCSS), Volume 78, Number 2, Pages 414-429, March 2012. Special issue on Games in Verification. [pdf] |
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· Local abstraction-refinement for the mu-calculus. Harald Fecher and Sharon Shoham, International Journal on Software Tools for Technology Transfer (STTT), Volume 13, Number 4, Pages 289-306, August 2011. Special issue of SPIN'07. [pdf] |
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· Compositional Verification and 3-Valued Abstractions Join Forces. Sharon Shoham and Orna Grumberg, Information and Computation, Volume 208, Number 2, Pages 178-202, February 2010. [pdf] |
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· 3-Valued Abstraction: More Precision at Less Cost. Sharon Shoham and Orna Grumberg, Information and Computation, Volume 206, Issue 11, Pages 1313-1333, November 2008. [pdf] |
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· Game semantics for the Lambek-Calculus: capturing directionality and the absence of structural rules. Sharon Shoham and Nissim Francez, Studia Logica, Volume 90, Number 2, Pages 161-188, November 2008. [pdf] |
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· Static Specification Mining Using Automata-Based Abstractions. Sharon Shoham, Eran Yahav, Stephen Fink and Marco Pistoia, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), Volume 34, Issue 5, Pages 651-666, September 2008. [pdf] |
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· A Game-Based Framework for CTL Counterexamples and 3-Valued Abstraction-Refinement. Sharon Shoham and Orna Grumberg, ACM Transactions on Computational Logic (TOCL), Volume 9, Issue 1, December 2007. [pdf] [proofs] |
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· When Not Losing Is Better than Winning: Abstraction and Refinement for the Full mu-Calculus. Orna Grumberg, Martin Lange, Martin Leucker and Sharon Shoham. Information and Computation, Volume 205, Issue 8, Pages 1130-1148, August 2007. [pdf] Survey
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SAT-based Model Checking: Interpolation, IC3, and Beyond.
Orna Grumberg, Sharon Shoham and Yakir Vizel In Nato Science Series, 2013. |
M.Sc. Thesis
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A Game-Based Framework for CTL Counterexamples and
Abstraction-Refinement. |
Ph.D. Thesis
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Abstraction-Refinement and Modularity in mu-Calculus Model
Checking. |
Students' Theses
·
Karam Abd Elkader, M.Sc., Computer Science Department, Technion, 2016. Automated
Circular Assume-Guarantee Reasoning. [pdf]
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Kalev Alpernas, M.Sc., Computer
Science, Tel-Aviv University, 2016. Safety
Verification of Stateful Networks. [pdf]
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Asya Frumkin, M.Sc., Computer Science, Tel-Aviv University,
2017. Property Directed Reachability for
Proving Absence of Concurrent Modification Errors. [pdf]
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Yotam M. Y. Feldman, M.Sc., Computer
Science, Tel-Aviv University, 2017. Bounded
Quantifier Instantiation for Checking Inductive Invariants. [pdf]
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Dan Rasin, M.Sc., Computer Science Department, Technion,
2018. Modular Verification of Concurrent
Programs via Sequential Model Checking. [pdf]
· Adi Omari, Ph.D., Computer Science Department, Technion, 2018. Scalable Data
Extraction via Program Synthesis. [pdf]
· Ron Shemer, M.Sc., Computer Science, Tel-Aviv University,
2019. Property Directed Self Composition. [pdf]
· Idan Berkovits, M.Sc., Computer Science, Tel-Aviv University,
2020. Verification of Threshold-Based
Distributed Algorithms by Decomposition to Decidable Logics. [pdf]
· Yotam Feldman, Ph.D., Computer Science, Tel-Aviv University,
2022. Towards a Theory of Learning
Inductive Invariants. [pdf]
· Raz Lotan, M.Sc., Computer Science, Tel-Aviv University,
2025. Approximating Undefinable Concepts for
Verification in First-Order Logic. [pdf]
Teaching
· Logic for Computer Science, Tel-Aviv
University
· Automatic Verification of Systems, Tel-Aviv
University
· Automatic Verification of Systems, Tel-Aviv
Yaffo academic College
· Seminar on Automatic Verification of
Systems, Tel-Aviv Yaffo academic
College
· Computability, Tel-Aviv
Yaffo academic College
· Introduction to Logic and Set Theory,
Tel-Aviv Yaffo academic College
· Computability Theory, Technion (Teaching assistant)
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Automatic
Verification of Programs, Technion
(Teaching assistant in charge)
·
Introduction
to Software Verification, Technion
(Teaching assistant in charge)
·
Logic in
Computer Science 1, Technion
(Teaching assistant)
· Automata and Formal Languages, Technion (Teaching assistant in charge)