Abstract
The Helena approach allows to specify dynamically evolving ensembles of collaborating components. It is centered around the notion of roles which components can adopt in ensembles. In this paper, we focus on the early verification of Helena models. We propose to translate Helena specifications into Promela and check satisfaction of LTL properties with Spin [11]. To prove the correctness of the translation, we consider an SOS semantics of (simplified variants of) Helena and Promela and establish stutter trace equivalence between them. Thus, we can guarantee that a Helena specification and its Promela translation satisfy the same LTL formulae (without next). Our correctness proof relies on a new, general criterion for stutter trace equivalence.
This work has been partially sponsored by the European Union under the FP7-project ASCENS, 257414.
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Notes
- 1.
\({LTL_{{\setminus }\mathbf{X }}} \) is the fragment of LTL that does not contain the next operator \(\mathbf{X } \).
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In the following, we often write \( rt \) synonymously for the role type name \( rtnm \).
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We must distinguish here between the role type \( rt' \), whose behavior is going to be defined, and the role type \( rt'' \) used for the parameter.
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Note that in the above definition we use \( rt {}\) also as a process name for the role behavior of the role type \( rt {}\).
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Here and in the following, we assume that the range of a finite function is implicitly extended by the undefined value \(\bot \).
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Provider@stateReqFile and Requester@stateSndFile are shorthand notations without identifier which can only be used if there exists at most one instance of the role type.
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In PromelaLight, we only consider asynchronous communication (\(\kappa > 0\)).
- 8.
For technical reasons, explained in the discussion of initial states below, we deviate from [20] and do not use 0 as an identifier for channels and processes.
- 9.
In [20], \({\texttt {ch}} \) is denoted by \(\mathcal {C}\), \(\texttt {proc} \) by act, and \({\beta } \) by \(\mathcal {L}\).
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The authors would like to thank Alberto Lluch Lafuente and Roberto Bruni for useful suggestions.
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Hennicker, R., Klarl, A., Wirsing, M. (2015). Model-Checking Helena Ensembles with Spin . In: Martí-Oliet, N., Ölveczky, P., Talcott, C. (eds) Logic, Rewriting, and Concurrency. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9200. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-23165-5_16
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