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Closing Open SDL-Systems for Model Checking with DTSpin

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Model checkers like Spin can handle closed reactive systems, only. Thus to handle open systems, in particular when using assume-guarantee reasoning, we need to be able to close (sub-)systems, which is commonly done by adding an environment process. For models with asynchronous message-passing communication, however, modelling the environment as separate process will lead to a combinatorial explosion caused by all combinations of messages in the input queues.

In this paper we describe the implementation of a tool which automatically closes DTPromela translations of SDL-specifications by embedding the timed chaotic environment into the system. To corroborate the usefulness of our approach, we compare the state space of models closed by embedding chaos with the state space of the same models closed with chaos as external environment process on some simple models and on a case study from a wireless ATM medium-access protocol.

Supported by the CWI-project “Systems Validation Centre (SVC)”.

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  1. Department of Software Engineering, CWI, P.O. Box 94079, 1090 GB, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Natalia Ioustinova

  2. Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Eindhoven University of Technology, Den Dolech 2, P.O. Box 513, 5612 MB, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

    Natalia Sidorova

  3. Institute of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, Christian-Albrechts-Universität, Preußerstraße 1-9, 24105, Kiel, Germany

    Martin Steffen

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Ioustinova, N., Sidorova, N., Steffen, M. (2002). Closing Open SDL-Systems for Model Checking with DTSpin. In: Eriksson, LH., Lindsay, P.A. (eds) FME 2002:Formal Methods—Getting IT Right. FME 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2391. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45614-7_30

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