SIMULATION AND FORMAL VERIFICATION OF REAL TIME SYSTEMS: A CASE STUDY

Eurico Seabra, José Machado, Jaime Ferreira da Silva, Filomena O. Soares, Celina P. Leão

2007

Abstract

This paper presents and discusses a case study that applies techniques of simulation together with techniques of formal verification. A new approach in the plant modelling for formal verification of timed systems is presented. The modelling of the plant was performed by using the object-oriented language Modelica with the library for hierarchical state machines StateGraph and the simulation results were used as input for the formal verification tasks, using the model checker UPPAAL. It is presented, in a more detailed way, the part of this work that is related to the plant simulation.

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Seabra E., Machado J., Ferreira da Silva J., O. Soares F. and P. Leão C. (2007). SIMULATION AND FORMAL VERIFICATION OF REAL TIME SYSTEMS: A CASE STUDY . In Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 3: ICINCO, ISBN 978-972-8865-84-9, pages 308-313. DOI: 10.5220/0001636703080313


in Bibtex Style

@conference{icinco07,
author={Eurico Seabra and José Machado and Jaime Ferreira da Silva and Filomena O. Soares and Celina P. Leão},
title={SIMULATION AND FORMAL VERIFICATION OF REAL TIME SYSTEMS: A CASE STUDY},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 3: ICINCO,},
year={2007},
pages={308-313},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001636703080313},
isbn={978-972-8865-84-9},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 3: ICINCO,
TI - SIMULATION AND FORMAL VERIFICATION OF REAL TIME SYSTEMS: A CASE STUDY
SN - 978-972-8865-84-9
AU - Seabra E.
AU - Machado J.
AU - Ferreira da Silva J.
AU - O. Soares F.
AU - P. Leão C.
PY - 2007
SP - 308
EP - 313
DO - 10.5220/0001636703080313