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Specifying Source Code and Signal-based Behaviour of Cyber-Physical System Components

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Formal Aspects of Component Software (FACS 2022)

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Specifying properties over the behaviour of components of Cyber-Physical Systems usually focuses on the behaviour of signals, i.e., the behaviour of the physical part of the system, leaving the behaviour of the cyber components implicit. There have been some attempts to provide specification languages that enable more explicit reference to the behaviour of cyber components, but it remains awkward to directly express the behaviour of both cyber and physical components in the same specification, using one formalism. In this paper, we introduce a new specification language, Source Code and Signal Logic (SCSL), that 1) provides syntax specific to both signals and events originating in source code; and 2) does not require source code events to be abstracted into signals. We introduce SCSL by giving its syntax and semantics, along with examples. We then provide a comparison between SCSL and existing specification languages, using an example property, to show the benefit of using SCSL to capture certain types of properties.

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    These predicates can be computed via static analyses of source code.

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The research described has been carried out as part of the COSMOS Project, which has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under grant agreement No. 957254.

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Dawes, J.H., Bianculli, D. (2022). Specifying Source Code and Signal-based Behaviour of Cyber-Physical System Components. In: Tapia Tarifa, S.L., Proença, J. (eds) Formal Aspects of Component Software. FACS 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13712. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-20872-0_2

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