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Formally verifying decompositions of stochastic specifications
KTH, School of Industrial Engineering and Management (ITM). Scania, Södertälje, Sweden.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-6667-3783
2024 (English)In: International Journal on Software Tools for Technology Transfer, ISSN 1433-2779, E-ISSN 1433-2787, Vol. 26, no 2, p. 207-228Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

According to the principles of compositional verification, verifying that lower-level components satisfy their specification ensures that the whole system satisfies its top-level specification. The key step is to ensure that the lower-level specifications constitute a correct decomposition of the top-level specification. In a non-stochastic context, such decomposition can be analyzed using techniques of theorem proving. In industrial applications, especially in safety-critical systems, specifications are often of stochastic nature, for example, giving a bound on the probability that a system failure will occur before a given time. A decomposition of such a specification requires techniques beyond traditional theorem proving. The first contribution of the paper is a theoretical framework that allows the representation of, and reasoning about, stochastic and timed behavior of systems as well as specifications for such behavior. The framework is based on traces that describe the continuous-time evolution of a system, and specifications are formulated using timed automata combined with probabilistic acceptance conditions. The second contribution is a novel approach to verifying decompositions of such specifications by reducing the problem to checking emptiness of the solution space for a system of linear inequalities.

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Springer Nature , 2024. Vol. 26, no 2, p. 207-228
Keywords [en]
Automata, Contracts, Refinement, Specification theory
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Computer Systems
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URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-367078DOI: 10.1007/s10009-024-00742-5ISI: 001168918400001Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85185288333OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-367078DiVA, id: diva2:1984154
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