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Polyhedra-Based Approach for Incremental Validation of Real-Time Systems

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Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing – EUC 2005 (EUC 2005)

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Real-time embedded systems can be used in hightly important or even vital tasks (avionic and medical systems, etc.), thus having strict temporal constraints that need to be validated. Existing solutions use temporal logic, automata or scheduling techniques. However, scheduling techniques are often pessimistic and require an almost complete knowledge of the system, and formal methods can be ill-fitted to manipulate some of the concepts involved in real-time systems.

In this article, we propose a method that gives to the designer the advantages of formal methods and some simplicity in manipulating real-time systems notions. This method is able to model and validate all the classical features of real-time systems, without any pessimism, while guaranteeing the terminaison of the validation process. Moreover, its formalism enables to study systems of which we have only a partial knowledge, and thus to validate or invalidate a system still under design. This latest point is very important, since it greatly decreases the cost of design backtracks.

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  1. IRIT, Paul Sabatier University, Toulouse, France

    David Doose & Zoubir Mammeri

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  1. Department of Computer Science, St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, Canada

    Laurence T. Yang

  2. Faculty of Information Science and Electrical Engineering, Kyushu University, 744 Motooka, Nishi-ku, 819-0395, Fukuoka, Japan

    Makoto Amamiya

  3. IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, NY, USA

    Zhen Liu

  4. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 200030, Shanghai, China

    Minyi Guo

  5. Heinz Nixdorf Institute, University of Paderborn, Fuerstenallee 11, 33102, Paderborn, Germany

    Franz J. Rammig

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Doose, D., Mammeri, Z. (2005). Polyhedra-Based Approach for Incremental Validation of Real-Time Systems. In: Yang, L.T., Amamiya, M., Liu, Z., Guo, M., Rammig, F.J. (eds) Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing – EUC 2005. EUC 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3824. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11596356_21

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