TY - GEN
T1 - Behavioral compatibility without state explosion
T2 - 9th International Symposium on Component-Based Software Engineering, CBSE 2006
AU - Attie, Paul C.
AU - Lorenz, David H.
AU - Portnova, Aleksandra
AU - Chockler, Hana
PY - 2006/1/1
Y1 - 2006/1/1
N2 - Most methods for designing component-based systems and verifying their compatibility address only the syntactic compatibility of components; no analysis of run-time behavior is made. Those methods that do address run-time behavior suffer from state-explosion: the exponential increase of the number of global states, and hence the complexity of the analysis, with the number of components. We present a method for designing component-based systems and verifying their behavioral compatibility and temporal behavior that is not susceptible to state explosion. Our method is mostly automatic, with little manual deduction required, and does not analyze a large system of connected components at once, but instead analyzes components two-at-a-time. This pair-wise approach enables the automatic verification of temporal behavior, using model-checking, in time polynomial in the number and size of all components. Our method checks that behavior of a pair of interacting components conforms to given properties, specified in temporal logic. Interaction of the components is captured in a product of their behavioral automata, which are provided as a part of each component's interface. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our method by applying it to the design and verification of a component-based elevator control algorithm.
AB - Most methods for designing component-based systems and verifying their compatibility address only the syntactic compatibility of components; no analysis of run-time behavior is made. Those methods that do address run-time behavior suffer from state-explosion: the exponential increase of the number of global states, and hence the complexity of the analysis, with the number of components. We present a method for designing component-based systems and verifying their behavioral compatibility and temporal behavior that is not susceptible to state explosion. Our method is mostly automatic, with little manual deduction required, and does not analyze a large system of connected components at once, but instead analyzes components two-at-a-time. This pair-wise approach enables the automatic verification of temporal behavior, using model-checking, in time polynomial in the number and size of all components. Our method checks that behavior of a pair of interacting components conforms to given properties, specified in temporal logic. Interaction of the components is captured in a product of their behavioral automata, which are provided as a part of each component's interface. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our method by applying it to the design and verification of a component-based elevator control algorithm.
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U2 - 10.1007/11783565_3
DO - 10.1007/11783565_3
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:33746415276
SN - 3540356282
SN - 9783540356288
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 33
EP - 49
BT - Component-Based Software Engineering - 9th International Symposium, CBSE 2006, Proceedings
PB - Springer Verlag
Y2 - 29 June 2006 through 1 July 2006
ER -