README.md

Formal-Complexity-Verification

This is a tool to automatically analyze the time complexity of recursive functions based on their inputs. Here we define "time" as the number of function calls that happen.

See example.py for usage and also the paper.

Language

This language supports:

• Function definition (similar to python)
• if else statements
• arithmatic operations +, -, *, %
• assert

Each program in this language consists of a list of functions

Each function consist of a list of function calls

Defined Functions are all void

Variables are immutable and can only be integers

Example

def f(n):
	if n <= 0:
	    pass
	else:
        f(n-1)


def g(n, m):
	if n <= 0:
	    pass
	else:
        g(n-1, m)
        f(m)

def gcd(a, b):
    assert(a >= 0)
    assert(b >= 0)
    if b >= 0:
        pass
    else:
        gcd(b, a%b)