Formal Design of Ambient Intelligence Applications

Coronato, Antonio; Pietro, Giuseppe De

doi:10.1109/mc.2010.335

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“…The objective of IE designers is to create an environment which can take decisions and, as a result, the devices can perform their ordinary activities in an intelligent manner, by facilitating the environment users with ease, comfort, security and safety in their life [2]. The increasing complexity of IEs calls for the adoption of structured and formal design and verification techniques [3], using modelbased approaches and formal validation and verification tools. In particular, all devices, their interconnections, and their governing algorithms should be modeled, to allow full system verification.…”

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Formal Verification of Device State Chart Models

Corno

Sanaullah

2011

2011 Seventh International Conference on Intelligent Environments

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Design and development of increasingly complex intelligent environments require rich design flows that include strong validation and verification methodologies. Formal verification techniques are often advocated, and they require formally described models of the smart home devices, their interconnections, and their controlling algorithms. Complete verification can only be achieved if all used models are verified, including individual device models. This paper proposes an approach to formally verify the correctness of device models described as UML State Charts, by checking their consistency with respect to the properties, declared in an Ontology, for the categories to which each device belongs. The paper describes the verification methodology and presents some first verification results.

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Formal Verification of Device State Chart Models

Corno

Sanaullah

2011

2011 Seventh International Conference on Intelligent Environments

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“…From a methodological point of view, Coronato and De Pietro [22] proposed a methodology for the design of Ambient Intelligence and Location-Aware applications which is composed of (i) meta-model of an ambient intelligence application; (ii) a detailed development process and (iii) a set of suggested tools to use at any stage of the process, along with guidelines and principles for designers. The meta-model formally defines the entities in the application domain, their unambiguous meaning, and the relations between them.…”

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Introduction to the inaugural issue of the Journal of Reliable Intelligent Environments

Augusto

Coronato

2015

J Reliable Intell Environ

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As envisioned by Weiser, computing is in the process of being everywhere and becoming invisible. As Milner noticed, the question now is whether we shall understand this ubiquitous computer we are building. This is especially true as designers are more and more using complex techniques for every component of the system and building systems which are made of increasingly heterogenous parts. With this extended editorial, we embark on an exploration journey into the exciting new area of "reliable intelligent environments" (RIEs). Taking the perspective of an RIE engineer, we present a selection of approaches that have been put forward to design, verify, and operate IEs in a manner so that users can rely on Intelligent Environment systems. We outline crucial challenges: the situatedness which exposes IE to challenges similar to those known from robotics and control systems, the embedding of human users and the safety, privacy, and usability requirements thus entailed, and the amounts of data produced by sensors and actuators, which require advanced reasoning and learning mechanisms to handle them in a reliable way in real-time. We also sketch the opportunities reliable IEs provide to developing new markets and products.

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“…This practice can, in our opinion, proficiently be supported by visual and automatic tools. For an example, Ambient Designer [Coronato and De Pietro 2010a] has been devised to provide support to model and test graphically Ambient Calculus specifications. It offers a functionality that enables the step-by-step reduction of AC terms; in other words, starting from the initial status of the system, the evolution regarding the execution of the ambient's capabilities is obtained automatically by the tool.…”

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Introduction to special section on formal methods in pervasive computing

Bakhouya

Campbell

Coronato

et al. 2012

ACM Trans. Auton. Adapt. Syst.

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Ubiquitous and pervasive applications may present critical requirements from the point of view of functional correctness, reliability, availability, security, and safety. Unlike traditional safety-critical applications, the behavior of ubiquitous and pervasive applications is affected by the movements and location of users and resources. In this article, we first present emerging formal methods for the description of both entities and their behavior in pervasive computing environments; then, we introduce this special issue. Despite many previous works that have focused on modeling the entities, relatively few have concentrated on modeling or verifying behaviors; and almost none has dealt with combining techniques proposed in these two aspects. The articles accepted in this special issue cover some of the topics aforementioned and constitute a representative sample of the latest development of formal methods in pervasive computing environments.

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Formal Design of Ambient Intelligence Applications

Cited by 43 publications

References 9 publications

Formal Verification of Device State Chart Models

Formal Verification of Device State Chart Models

Introduction to the inaugural issue of the Journal of Reliable Intelligent Environments

Introduction to special section on formal methods in pervasive computing

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