JeB: Safe Simulation of Event-B Models in JavaScript

Yang, Faqing; Jacquot, Jean‐Pierre; Souquières, Jeanine

doi:10.1109/apsec.2013.83

Cited by 12 publications

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“…Another advanced visualisation framework is PVSio-Web [91] for PVS. Also, for Event-B a series of other visualisation tools were developed, such as Brama, AnimB and JEB [93] which includes a JavaScript interpreter for B.…”

Section: Visualisationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Integrating formal specifications into applications: the ProB Java API

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Dunkelau

et al. 2020

Form Methods Syst Des

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The common formal methods workflow consists of formalising a model followed by applying model checking and proof techniques. Once an appropriate level of certainty is reached, code generators are used in order to gain executable code. In this paper, we propose a different approach: instead of generating code from formal models, it is also possible to embed a model checker or animator into applications in order to use the formal models themselves at runtime. We present a Java API to the ProB animator and model checker. We describe several case studies that use this API as enabling technology to interact with a formal specification at runtime.

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Section: Visualisationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Integrating formal specifications into applications: the ProB Java API

Körner

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Dunkelau

et al. 2020

Form Methods Syst Des

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“…This Java-based framework helps users to generate and execute simulations of Event-B models. By validation of the formal models, the adequacy of the requirements during the development process can be evaluated (Yang et al, 2013;Mashkoor et al, 2017;Jacquot and Mashkoor, 2018). Cosimulation can be utilized as the development progresses to simulate a continuous model of parts of the system with a continuous representation of the environment.…”

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Applying guidelines for system modelling in Event-B - a systematic literature review

Olszewska

Manninen

Edmunds

et al. 2020

IJCCBS

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Developing safety-critical systems is an intricate task since it involves the application of well-established and rigorous methods, supported by good practices. The modelling is merely a part of this undertaking. However, it plays a significant role in the description of the system, how it will behave and what properties it will have. Formal methods, for instance Event-B, are utilised in such cases to assure that the system is correct-by-construction and functions as required. In this work we use a literature review method to collect a body of knowledge that would support the Event-B practitioners with modelling guidelines. We first define the domains in which the guidelines fall and divide them into two categories: beginners and advanced. Then we provide a collection of guidelines as reinforcements for domain-specific applications of Event-B.

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“…Similar tools exist for theorem provers [3] and other formal methods [26]. The presented approach also has similarities to the animation of EventB/B models using tools such as JeB [25] and ProB [14]. Indeed, JeB even provides support for a type of semantic attachment in the form of "hooks" for the user to supply Java code where a function in the specification is undefined.…”

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Software Validation via Model Animation

Dutle

Muñoz

Narkawicz

et al. 2015

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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This paper explores a new approach to validating software implementations that have been produced from formally-verified algorithms. Although visual inspection gives some confidence that the implementations faithfully reflect the formal models, it does not provide complete assurance that the software is correct. The proposed approach, which is based on animation of formal specifications, compares the outputs computed by the software implementations on a given suite of input values to the outputs computed by the formal models on the same inputs, and determines if they are equal up to a given tolerance. The approach is illustrated on a prototype air traffic management system that computes simple kinematic trajectories for aircraft. Proofs for the mathematical models of the system's algorithms are carried out in the Prototype Verification System (PVS). The animation tool PVSio is used to evaluate the formal models on a set of randomly generated test cases. Output values computed by PVSio are compared against output values computed by the actual software. This comparison improves the assurance that the translation from formal models to code is faithful and that, for example, floating point errors do not greatly affect correctness and safety properties.

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JeB: Safe Simulation of Event-B Models in JavaScript

Cited by 12 publications

References 14 publications

Integrating formal specifications into applications: the ProB Java API

Integrating formal specifications into applications: the ProB Java API

Applying guidelines for system modelling in Event-B - a systematic literature review

Software Validation via Model Animation

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