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We suggest a three-level integrated approach to design, specification and verification of distributed system. The approach is based on a newly designed specification language Basic-REAL (bREAL) and comprises (I) translation of a high-level design of distributed systems to executional specifications of bREAL, (II) presentation of high-level properties of distributed systems as logical specifications of bREAL, (III) problem-oriented compositional deductive reasoning coupled with model-checking. The paper presents syntax and semantics of bREAL in formal and informal levels, some meta-properties of this language (namely, stuttering invariance and interleaving concurrency), proof-principles and model-checking for progress properties. An illustrative example (Passenger and Vending Machine) is also presented.
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Nepomniaschy, V.A., Shilov, N.V., Bodin, E.V., Kozura, V.E. (2002). Basic-REAL: Integrated Approach for Design, Specification and Verification of Distributed Systems. In: Butler, M., Petre, L., Sere, K. (eds) Integrated Formal Methods. IFM 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2335. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-47884-1_5
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