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Formal Verification of Temporal Properties for Reduced Overhead in Grid Scientific Workflows

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With quick development of grid techniques and growing complexity of grid applications, it is becoming critical for reasoning temporal properties of grid workflows to probe potential pitfalls and errors, in order to ensure reliability and trustworthiness at the initial design phase. A state Pi calculus is proposed and implemented in this work, which not only enables flexible abstraction and management of historical grid system events, but also facilitates modeling and temporal verification of grid workflows. Furthermore, a relaxed region analysis (RRA) approach is proposed to decompose large scale grid workflows into sequentially composed regions with relaxation of parallel workflow branches, and corresponding verification strategies are also decomposed following modular verification principles. Performance evaluation results show that the RRA approach can dramatically reduce CPU time and memory usage of formal verification

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  1. Research Institute of Information Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China

    Jun-Wei Cao (Member, CCF, ACM, Senior Member, IEEE)

  2. Tsinghua National Laboratory for Information Science and Technology, Beijing, 100084, China

    Jun-Wei Cao (Member, CCF, ACM, Senior Member, IEEE)

  3. National CIMS Engineering and Research Center, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China

    Fan Zhang (Student Member, IEEE), Lian-Chen Liu & Cheng Wu

  4. Morgan Stanley, Shanghai, 200002, China

    Ke Xu

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This work is supported by the National Basic Research 973 Program of China under Grant Nos. 2011CB302805, 2011CB302505, the National High Technology Research and Development 863 Program of China under Grant No. 2011AA040501, and the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No. 60803017. Fan Zhang is supported by IBM 2011–2012 Ph.D. Fellowship.

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Cao, JW., Zhang, F., Xu, K. et al. Formal Verification of Temporal Properties for Reduced Overhead in Grid Scientific Workflows. J. Comput. Sci. Technol. 26, 1017–1030 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11390-011-1198-4

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