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Formal synthesis of application and platform behaviors of embedded software systems

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Two main embedded software components, application software and platform software, i.e., the real-time operating system (RTOS), interact with each other in order to achieve the functionality of the system. However, they are so different in behaviors that one behavior modeling language is not sufficient to model both styles of behaviors and to reason about the characteristics of their individual behaviors as well as their parallel behavior and interaction properties. In this paper, we present a formal approach to the synthesis of the application software and the RTOS behavior models. In this approach, each of them is modeled with its adequate modeling language and then is composed into a system model for analysis. Moreover, this paper also presents a consistent way of analyzing the application software with respect to both functional requirements and timing requirements. To show the effectiveness of the approach, a case study is conducted, where ARINC 653 and its application are modeled and verified against timing requirements. Using our approach, application software can be constructed as a behavioral model independently from a specific platform and can be verified against various platforms and timing constraints in a formal way.

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This research was supported by Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) funded by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (2012R1A1A2009354).

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  1. Department of Computer Science, Aalborg Universitet, Science Selma Lagerlofs Vej 300, 9229 , Alaborg, Denmark

    Jinhyun Kim

  2. Department of Mechanical and Information Engineering, University of Seoul, Jeonnong-Dong 90, Seoul, 130-743, Korea

    Inhye Kang

  3. College of Information and Communications, Korea University, Anam-Dong 5-1, Sungbuk-Gu, Seoul, 136-701, Korea

    Jin-Young Choi

  4. Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania, 3330 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, 10104, USA

    Insup Lee

  5. Department of Computer Science, KAIST, 291 Daehak-ro, Daejeon, 305-701, Korea

    Sungwon Kang

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Kim, J., Kang, I., Choi, JY. et al. Formal synthesis of application and platform behaviors of embedded software systems. Softw Syst Model 14, 839–859 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10270-013-0342-8

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