[PPL-devel] Parma Polyhedra Library

varza victor victor.varza at gmail.com
Thu Mar 28 10:02:44 CET 2013


Dear Roberto,

Thank you very much for helping me. I knew that I missed something because
PLL is a powerful tool.

Kind regards,
Victor


2013/3/28 Roberto Bagnara <bagnara at cs.unipr.it>

> On 03/28/13 09:09, varza victor wrote:
> > My question is about this paper "The Parma Polyhedra Library: Toward
> > a Complete Set of Numerical Abstractions for the Analysis and
> > Verification"
> > (http://bugseng.com/products/ppl/documentation/BagnaraHZ08SCP.pdf)which
> > describes a method to find min and max for a linear programming
> > problem. The author used LP_Problem class which I haven't found in
> > the source code of the PPL. He also suggest (page 13) that the LP
> > Solver is only in the CVS repository.
>
> Hi Victor,
>
> see the NEWS for version 0.10 (released on November 4, 2008):
>
> o  The class LP_Problem has been renamed MIP_Problem and now supports
>    the solution of Mixed Integer (Linear) Programming problems.
>    Support has been added for the incremental solution of MIP
>    problems: it is now possible to add new space dimensions or new
>    constraints to the feasible region, as well as change the objective
>    function and the optimization mode, while still exploiting some of
>    the computational work done before these changes.  Support has also
>    been added to change control parameters for the pricing method.
>    This allows a choice between the steepest edge pricing method,
>    either implemented with floating point numbers (default) or with
>    integer coefficients, and the textbook pricing method.
>
> Kind regards,
>
>    Roberto
>
> > 2013/3/28 Roberto Bagnara <bagnara at cs.unipr.it <mailto:
> bagnara at cs.unipr.it>>
> >
> >     On 03/27/13 18:39, varza victor wrote:
> >     > Hi,
> >     > My name is Victor Varza, I'm student at Politehnica University of
> >     > Bucharest and I working at a research about actual fuzzing testing
> >     > tools and methods.I want to use your library (PPL) to generate some
> >     > test case from a given constraint sistem. I have searched in your
> >     > papers to find how to do this but I haven't find something that
> >     > could help me. I'm working in C++ and I need some example to
> >     > generate data for a poliedrom. Could you please help me in this
> way?
> >     >
> >     > Best regards,
> >     > VIctor
> >
> >     Dear Victor,
> >
> >     I am not sure I understand.  The PPL Git repository (and any source
> >     distribution for that matter) is packed with tests and sample code.
> >     The manual contains lots of examples.  And you can download entire
> >     applications using the PPL following links from
> >
> >       http://bugseng.com/products/ppl/applications
> >
> >     Kind regards,
> >
> >        Roberto
> >
> >     --
> >          Prof. Roberto Bagnara
> >
> >     Applied Formal Methods Laboratory - University of Parma, Italy
> >     mailto:bagnara at cs.unipr.it <mailto:bagnara at cs.unipr.it>
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> roberto.bagnara at bugseng.com>
> >
> >
> >
> >
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>
> --
>      Prof. Roberto Bagnara
>
> Applied Formal Methods Laboratory - University of Parma, Italy
> mailto:bagnara at cs.unipr.it
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