Uppaal in a Nutshell.

Uppaal in a Nutshell. (1997)

by Kim G Larsen, Paul Pettersson, Wang Yi

Venue:

Int. Journal on Software Tools for Technology Transfer,

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"... Model checking is emerging as a practical tool for automated debugging of complex reactive systems such as embedded controllers and network protocols (see [23] for a survey). Traditional techniques for model checking do not admit an explicit modeling of time, and are thus, unsuitable for analysis of ..."

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Model checking is emerging as a practical tool for automated debugging of complex reactive systems such as embedded controllers and network protocols (see [23] for a survey). Traditional techniques for model checking do not admit an explicit modeling of time, and are thus, unsuitable for analysis of real-time systems whose correctness depends on relative magnitudes of different delays. Consequently, timed automata [7] were introduced as a formal notation to model the behavior of real-time systems. Its definition provides a simple way to annotate state-transition graphs with timing constraints using finitely many real-valued clock variables. Automated analysis of timed automata relies on the construction of a finite quotient of the infinite space of clock valuations. Over the years, the formalism has been extensively studied leading to many results establishing connections to circuits and logic, and much progress has been made in developing verification algorithms, heuristics, and tools. This paper provides a survey of the theory of timed automata, and their role in specification and verification of real-time systems.

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Model Checking Programs

by Willem Visser, Klaus Havelund, GUILLAUME BRAT, SEUNGJOON PARK, FLAVIO LERDA , 2003

"... The majority of work carried out in the formal methods community throughout the last three decades has (for good reasons) been devoted to special languages designed to make it easier to experiment with mechanized formal methods such as theorem provers, proof checkers and model checkers. In this pape ..."

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The majority of work carried out in the formal methods community throughout the last three decades has (for good reasons) been devoted to special languages designed to make it easier to experiment with mechanized formal methods such as theorem provers, proof checkers and model checkers. In this paper we will attempt to give convincing arguments for why we believe it is time for the formal methods community to shift some of its attention towards the analysis of programs written in modern programming languages. In keeping with this philosophy we have developed a verification and testing environment for Java, called Java PathFinder (JPF), which integrates model checking, program analysis and testing. Part of this work has consisted of building a new Java Virtual Machine that interprets Java bytecode. JPF uses state compression to handle big states, and partial order and symmetry reduction, slicing, abstraction, and runtime analysis techniques to reduce the state space. JPF has been applied to a real-time avionics operating system developed at Honeywell, illustrating an intricate error, and to a model of a spacecraft controller, illustrating the combination of abstraction, runtime analysis, and slicing with model checking.

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PRISM 4.0: Verification of Probabilistic Real-time Systems

by Marta Kwiatkowska, Gethin Norman, David Parker

"... Abstract. This paper describes a major new release of the PRISM probabilistic model checker, adding, in particular, quantitative verification of (priced) probabilistic timed automata. These model systems exhibiting probabilistic, nondeterministic and real-time characteristics. In many application do ..."

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Abstract. This paper describes a major new release of the PRISM probabilistic model checker, adding, in particular, quantitative verification of (priced) probabilistic timed automata. These model systems exhibiting probabilistic, nondeterministic and real-time characteristics. In many application domains, all three aspects are essential; this includes, for example, embedded controllers in automotive or avionic systems, wireless communication protocols such as Bluetooth or Zigbee, and randomised security protocols. PRISM, which is open-source, also contains several new components that are of independent use. These include: an extensible toolkit for building, verifying and refining abstractions of probabilistic models; an explicit-state probabilistic model checking library; a discrete-event simulation engine for statistical model checking; support for generation of optimal adversaries/strategies; and a benchmark suite. 1

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Automatic verification of real-time systems with discrete probability distributions

by Marta Kwiatkowska, Gethin Norman, Roberto Segala, Jeremy Sproston - Theoretical Computer Science , 1999

"... Abstract. We consider the timed automata model of [3], which allows the analysis of real-time systems expressed in terms of quantitative timing constraints. Traditional approaches to real-time system description express the model purely in terms of nondeterminism; however, we may wish to express the ..."

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Abstract. We consider the timed automata model of [3], which allows the analysis of real-time systems expressed in terms of quantitative timing constraints. Traditional approaches to real-time system description express the model purely in terms of nondeterminism; however, we may wish to express the likelihood of the system making certain transitions. In this paper, we present a model for real-time systems augmented with discrete probability distributions. Furthermore, using the algorithm of [5] with fairness, we develop a model checking method for such models against temporal logic properties which can refer both to timing properties and probabilities, such as, “with probability 0.6 or greater, the clock x remains below 5 until clock y exceeds 2”. 1

Model Checking in CLP

by Giorgio Delzanno, Andreas Podelski , 1999

"... We show that Constraint Logic Programming (CLP) can serve as a conceptual basis and as a practical implementation platform for the model checking of infinite-state systems. Our contributions are: (1) a semantics-preserving translation of concurrent systems into CLP programs, (2) a method for verifyi ..."

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We show that Constraint Logic Programming (CLP) can serve as a conceptual basis and as a practical implementation platform for the model checking of infinite-state systems. Our contributions are: (1) a semantics-preserving translation of concurrent systems into CLP programs, (2) a method for verifying safety and liveness properties on the CLP programs produced by the translation. We have implemented the method in a CLP system and verified well-known examples of infinitestate programs over integers, using here linear constraints as opposed to Presburger arithmetic as in previous solutions.

Linear Parametric Model Checking of Timed Automata

by Thomas Hune, Judi Romijn, Mariëlle Stoelinga, Frits Vaandrager , 2002

"... We present an extension of the model checker Uppaal, capable of synthesizing linear parameter constraints for the correctness of parametric timed automata. A symbolic representation of the (parametric) state space in terms of parametric difference bound matrices is shown to be correct. A second cont ..."

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We present an extension of the model checker Uppaal, capable of synthesizing linear parameter constraints for the correctness of parametric timed automata. A symbolic representation of the (parametric) state space in terms of parametric difference bound matrices is shown to be correct. A second contribution of this paper is the identification of a subclass of parametric timed automata (L/U automata), for which the emptiness problem is decidable, contrary to the full class where it is known to be undecidable. Also, we present a number of results that reduce the verification effort for L/U automata in certain cases. We illustrate our approach by deriving linear parameter constraints for a number of well-known case studies from the literature (exhibiting a flaw in a published paper).

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Efficient on-the-fly algorithms for the analysis of timed games

by Franck Cassez, Alexandre David, Emmanuel Fleury, Kim G. Larsen, Didier Lime - IN CONCUR 05, LNCS 3653 , 2005

"... In this paper, we propose a first efficient on-the-fly algorithm for solving games based on timed game automata with respect to reachability and safety properties. The algorithm we propose is a symbolic extension of the on-the-fly algorithm suggested by Liu & Smolka [15] for linear-time model-c ..."

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In this paper, we propose a first efficient on-the-fly algorithm for solving games based on timed game automata with respect to reachability and safety properties. The algorithm we propose is a symbolic extension of the on-the-fly algorithm suggested by Liu & Smolka [15] for linear-time model-checking of finite-state systems. Being on-the-fly, the symbolic algorithm may terminate long before having explored the entire state-space. Also the individual steps of the algorithm are carried out efficiently by the use of so-called zones as the underlying data structure. Various optimizations of the basic symbolic algorithm are proposed as well as methods for obtaining time-optimal winning strategies (for reachability games). Extensive evaluation of an experimental implementation of the algorithm yields very encouraging performance results.

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TIMES: a Tool for Schedulability Analysis and Code Generation of Real-Time Systems

by Tobias Amnell, Elena Fersman, Leonid Mokrushin, Paul Pettersson, Wang Yi - IN PROC. OF FORMATS’03, NUMBER 2791 IN LNCS , 2003

"... Times is a tool suite designed mainly for symbolic schedulability analysis and synthesis of executable code with predictable behaviours for real-time systems. Given a system design model consisting of (1) a set of application tasks whose executions may be required to meet mixed timing, precedenc ..."

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Times is a tool suite designed mainly for symbolic schedulability analysis and synthesis of executable code with predictable behaviours for real-time systems. Given a system design model consisting of (1) a set of application tasks whose executions may be required to meet mixed timing, precedence, and resource constraints, (2) a network of timed automata describing the task arrival patterns and (3) a preemptive or non-preemptive scheduling policy, Times will generate a scheduler, and calculate the worst case response times for the tasks.

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A brief history of process algebra

by J. C. M. Baeten - THEOR. COMPUT. SCI , 2004

"... This note addresses the history of process algebra as an area of research in concurrency theory, the theory of parallel and distributed systems in computer science. Origins are traced back to the early seventies of the twentieth century, and developments since that time are sketched. The author giv ..."

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This note addresses the history of process algebra as an area of research in concurrency theory, the theory of parallel and distributed systems in computer science. Origins are traced back to the early seventies of the twentieth century, and developments since that time are sketched. The author gives his personal views on these matters. He also considers the present situation, and states some challenges for the future.

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Hierarchical Modeling and Analysis of Embedded Systems

by Rajeev Alur, Thao Dang, Joel Esposito, Yerang Hur, Franjo Ivancic, Vijay Kumar, Insup Lee, Pradyumna Mishra, George J. Pappas, Oleg Sokolsky , 2003

"... This paper describes the modeling language CHARON for modular design of interacting hybrid systems. The language allows specification of architectural as well as behavioral hierarchy and discrete as well as continuous activities. The modular structure of the language is not merely syntactic, but is ..."

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This paper describes the modeling language CHARON for modular design of interacting hybrid systems. The language allows specification of architectural as well as behavioral hierarchy and discrete as well as continuous activities. The modular structure of the language is not merely syntactic, but is exploited by analysis tools and is supported by a formal semantics with an accompanying compositional theory of refinement. We illustrate the benefits of CHARON in the design of embedded control software using examples from automated highways concerning vehicle coordination