Technical Reports

A List by Author: Barbora Zimmerová

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Partial Order Reduction for State/Event LTL

by Nikola Bene¹, Lubo¹ Brim, Ivana Èerná, Jiøí Sochor, Pavlína Vaøeková, Barbora Zimmerová, July 2008, 21 pages.

FIMU-RS-2008-07. Available as Postscript, PDF.

Abstract:

Software systems assembled from a large number of autonomous components become an interesting target for formal verification due to the issue of correct interplay in component interaction. State/event LTL incorporates both states and events to express important properties of component-based software systems.

The main contribution of the paper is a partial order reduction technique for verification of state/event LTL properties. The core of the partial order reduction is a novel notion of stuttering equivalence which we call state/event stuttering equivalence. The positive attribute of the equivalence is that it can be resolved with existing methods for partial order reduction. State/event LTL properties are, in general, not preserved under state/event stuttering equivalence. To this end we define a new logic, called weak state/event LTL, which is invariant under the new equivalence.

Component-Interaction Automata Modelling Language

by Ivana Èerná, Pavlína Vaøeková, Barbora Zimmerová, October 2006, 25 pages.

FIMU-RS-2006-08. Available as Postscript, PDF.

Abstract:

The paper introduces a Component-interaction automata language, which was designed for modelling of component interactions in hierarchical component-based software systems. The language supports modelling of important interaction attributes of such systems, and hence provides a rich base for further application of formal methods. Component-interaction automata provide a flexible form of component composition which can respect architectural assembly of the system, communication mechanisms, and other specifics of component-based systems. This allows the language to capture interactions in many different kinds of componentbased systems (built on different component models for instance). This paper provides a detailed study of the language including discussion of its practical application and comparison with related work. We intend to use this language as a framework for verifying coordination errors, checking of reconfiguration correctness, and formal analysis of component interactions in component-based systems, which is our ongoing and future work.