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Issues in distributed timed model checking

Building Zeus

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In this work we present Zeus, a distributed timed model checker that evolves from the TCTL model checker Kronos [13] and that currently can handle backwards computation of reachability properties [2] over timed automata [3].

Zeus was developed following a software architecture-centric approach. Its conceptual architecture was conceived to be sufficiently modular to house several features such as a priori graph partitioning, synchronous and asynchronous computation, communication piggybacking, delayed messaging, and dead-time utilization.

Surprisingly enough, early experiments pinpointed the difficulties of getting speedups using asynchronous versions and showed interesting results on the synchronous counterpart, although being intuitively less attractive.

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  1. Computer Science Department, FCEyN, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina

    Víctor Braberman & Fernando Schapachnik

  2. Department of Information Technology, FIyCE, Universidad Argentina de la Empresa, Buenos Aires, Argentina

    Alfredo Olivero

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Braberman, V., Olivero, A. & Schapachnik, F. Issues in distributed timed model checking. Int J Softw Tools Technol Transfer 7, 4–18 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10009-004-0143-z

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