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Automata Based Model Checking for Reo Connectors

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Fundamentals of Software Engineering (FSEN 2009)

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Reo is a connector language for the exogenous composition and orchestration of components in a software system. An operational semantics of Reo connectors can be given in terms of Büchi automata over a suitable alphabet of records, capturing both synchronization and context dependency requirements. In this paper, we define an action based linear time temporal logic for expressing properties of Reo connectors. Formulas can be synthesized into Büchi automata representing Reo connectors, thus leading to an automata based model checking algorithm. By generalizing standard automata based model checking algorithms for linear time temporal logic, we give an efficient on-the-fly algorithm for the model checking of formulas for Reo connectors.

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  1. LIACS - Leiden University, The Netherlands

    Marcello M. Bonsangue & Mohammad Izadi

  2. Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica (CWI), The Netherlands

    Marcello M. Bonsangue

  3. Dept. of Computer Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran

    Mohammad Izadi

  4. Research Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies, Tehran, Iran

    Mohammad Izadi

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  1. Center for Mathematics and Computer Science (CWI), Science Park 123, 1098 XG, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Farhad Arbab

  2. Reykjavik University, School of Computer Science, Kringlan 1, 103, Reykjavik, Iceland

    Marjan Sirjani

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Bonsangue, M.M., Izadi, M. (2010). Automata Based Model Checking for Reo Connectors. In: Arbab, F., Sirjani, M. (eds) Fundamentals of Software Engineering. FSEN 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5961. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-11623-0_15

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