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Putting advanced reachability analysis techniques together: The “ARA” tool

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“ARA” is a verification tool which applies some recent improved speed verification techniques. ARA accepts as input systems described in Basic Lotos. With ARA, a system can be verified by showing that it is behaviourally equivalent with its specification. For comparing behaviours, ARA uses a novel CSP-like but catastrophe-free behavioural equivalence notion called “CFFD-equivalence”. ARA can also reduce the behaviour of the system into a small “normal” form, and show the result graphically. ARA applies two techniques to cope with the state explosion problem: compositional LTS construction and the stubborn set method. The paper contains a detailed example of the validation of a communication protocol using ARA. The paper concentrates on the intuition behind the various novel ideas of ARA; formal details are mostly omitted.

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  1. Antti Valmari

    Present address: Tampere University of Technology, Tampere, Finland

  2. Matthew Clegg

    Present address: University of California San Diego, USA

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  1. Computer Technology Laboratory, Technical Research Centre of Finland, PO Box 201, SF-90571, Oulu, Finland

    Antti Valmari, Jukka Kemppainen, Matthew Clegg & Mikko Levanto

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Valmari, A., Kemppainen, J., Clegg, M., Levanto, M. (1993). Putting advanced reachability analysis techniques together: The “ARA” tool. In: Woodcock, J.C.P., Larsen, P.G. (eds) FME '93: Industrial-Strength Formal Methods. FME 1993. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 670. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0024669

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