Reasoning on Dynamic Transformations of Symbolic Heaps

Building on previous results concerning the decidability of the satisfiability and entailment problems for separation logic formulas with inductively defined predicates, we devise a proof procedure to reason on dynamic transformations of memory heaps. The initial state of the system is described by a separation logic formula of some particular form, its evolution is modeled by a finite transition system and the expected property is given as a linear temporal logic formula built over assertions in separation logic