Formal Methods for Industrial Critical Systems
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FOREWORD by Mike Hinchey xiii
FOREWORD by Alessandro Fantechi and Pedro Merino xv
PREFACE xvii
CONTRIBUTORS xix
PART I INTRODUCTION AND STATE OF THE ART 1
1 FORMAL METHODS: APPLYING {LOGICS IN, THEORETICAL} COMPUTER SCIENCE 3
Diego Latella
1.1 Introduction and State of the Art 3
1.2 Future Directions 9
PART II MODELING PARADIGMS 15
2 A SYNCHRONOUS LANGUAGE AT WORK: THE STORY OF LUSTRE 17
Nicolas Halbwachs
2.1 Introduction 17
2.2 A Flavor of the Language 18
2.3 The Design and Development of Lustre and Scade 20
2.4 Some Lessons from Industrial Use 25
2.5 And Now . . . 28
3 REQUIREMENTS OF AN INTEGRATED FORMAL METHOD FOR INTELLIGENT SWARMS 33
Mike Hinchey, James L. Rash, Christopher A. Rouff, Walt F. Truszkowski, and Amy K.C.S. Vanderbilt
3.1 Introduction 33
3.2 Swarm Technologies 35
3.3 NASA FAST Project 39
3.4 Integrated Swarm Formal Method 41
3.5 Conclusion 55
PART III TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS 61
4 SOME TRENDS IN FORMAL METHODS APPLICATIONS TO RAILWAY SIGNALING 63
Alessandro Fantechi, Wan Fokkink, and Angelo Morzenti
4.1 Introduction 63
4.2 CENELEC Guidelines 65
4.3 Software Procurement in Railway Signaling 66
4.4 A Success Story: The B Method 70
4.5 Classes of Railway Signaling Equipment 71
4.6 Conclusions 80
5 SYMBOLIC MODEL CHECKING FOR AVIONICS 85
Radu I. Siminiceanu and Gianfranco Ciardo
5.1 Introduction 85
5.2 Application: The Runway Safety Monitor 87
5.3 A Discrete Model of RSM 95
5.4 Discussion 107
PART IV TELECOMMUNICATIONS 113
6 APPLYING FORMAL METHODS TO TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES WITH ACTIVE NETWORKS 115
María del Mar Gallardo, Jesús Martínez, and Pedro Merino
6.1 Overview 115
6.2 Active Networks 116
6.3 The Capsule Approach 117
6.4 Previous Approaches on Analyzing Active Networks 118
6.5 Model Checking Active Networks with SPIN 122
6.6 Conclusions 129
7 PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS OF PROBABILISTIC MODEL CHECKING TO COMMUNICATION PROTOCOLS 133
Marie Dufl ot, Marta Kwiatkowska, Gethin Norman, David Parker, Sylvain Peyronnet, Claudine Picaronny, and Jeremy Sproston
7.1 Introduction 133
7.2 PTAs 134
7.3 Probabilistic Model Checking 136
7.4 Case Study: CSMA/CD 139
7.5 Discussion and Conclusion 146
PART V INTERNET AND ONLINE SERVICES 151
8 DESIGN FOR VERIFIABILITY: THE OCS CASE STUDY 153
Johannes Neubauer, Tiziana Margaria, and Bernhard Steffen
8.1 Introduction 153
8.2 The User Model 155
8.3 The Models and the Framework 158
8.4 Model Checking 159
8.5 Validating Emerging Global Behavior via Automata Learning 161
8.6 Related Work 170
8.7 Conclusion and Perspectives 173
9 AN APPLICATION OF STOCHASTIC MODEL CHECKING IN THE INDUSTRY: USER-CENTERED MODELING AND ANALYSIS OF COLLABORATION IN THINKTEAM 179
Maurice H. ter Beek, Stefania Gnesi, Diego Latella, Mieke Massink, Maurizio Sebastianis, and Gianluca Trentanni
9.1 Introduction 179
9.2 thinkteam 182
9.3 Analysis of the thinkteam Log File 184
9.4 thinkteam with Replicated Vaults 189
9.5 Lessons Learned 201
9.6 Conclusions 201
PART VI RUNTIME: TESTING AND MODEL LEARNING 205
10 THE TESTING AND TEST CONTROL NOTATION TTCN-3 AND ITS USE 207
Ina Schieferdecker and Alain-Georges Vouffo-Feudjio
10.1 Introduction 207
10.2 The Concepts of TTCN-3 210
10.3 An Introductory Example 216
10.4 TTCN-3 Semantics and Its Application 219
10.5 A Distributed Test Platform for the TTCN-3 220
10.6 Case Study I: Testing of Open Service Architecture (OSA)/Parlay Services 223
10.7 Case Study II: Testing of IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) Equipment 225
10.8 Conclusion 230
11 PRACTICAL ASPECTS OF ACTIVE AUTOMATA LEARNING 235
Falk Howar, Maik Merten, Bernhard Steffen, and Tiziana Margaria
11.1 Introduction 235
11.2 Regular Extrapolation 239
11.3 Challenges in Regular Extrapolation 244
11.4 Interacting with Real Systems 247
11.5 Membership Queries 250
11.6 Reset 253
11.7 Parameters and Value Domains 256
11.8 The NGLL 260
11.9 Conclusion and Perspectives 263
References 264
INDEX 269
