Scaling Up with Event-B: A Case Study

Yang, Faqing; Jacquot, Jean‐Pierre

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-20398-5_31

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“…All 132 generated timingrelated POs were automatically discharged. Verification for deadlock freeness is not well integrated into Event-B framework [26], hence we favour model-checking for this task. To further verify our approach, we have model-checked our model with a limited state-space coverage and did not find any deadlocks of invariant violations.…”

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An Interval-Based Approach to Modelling Time in Event-B

Sulskus

Poppleton

Rezazadeh

2015

Fundamentals of Software Engineering

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Abstract. Our work was inspired by our modelling and verification of a cardiac pacemaker, which includes concurrent aspects and a set of interdependent and cyclic timing constraints. To model timing constraints in such systems, we present an approach based on the concept of timing interval. We provide a template-based timing constraint modelling scheme that could potentially be applicable to a wide range of modelling scenarios. We give a notation and Event-B semantics for the interval. The Event-B coding of the interval is decoupled from the application logic of the model, therefore a generative design of the approach is possible. We demonstrate our interval approach and its refinement through a small example. The example is verified, model-checked and animated (manually validated) with the ProB animator.

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Section: Verification and Validationmentioning

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An Interval-Based Approach to Modelling Time in Event-B

Sulskus

Poppleton

Rezazadeh

2015

Fundamentals of Software Engineering

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“…We have seen how the class of executable specifications can be extended with the help of few safe transformations [4]. Yet, there are some formal texts on which animators fail [5]. For those texts, we propose to use simulation rather than animation; the specification is translated into a program.…”

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Using Probabilistic Analysis for the Certification of Machine Control Systems

Mashkoor

Hasan

Beer

2013

Security Engineering and Intelligence Informatics

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Abstract. Traditional testing techniques often reach their limits when employed for the assessment of critical Machine Control Systems as they contain a large amount of random and unpredictable components. The probabilistic analysis approach can assist in their evaluation by providing a subjective evidence of their safety and reliability. The synergy of probabilistic analysis and expressiveness of higher-order logic theorem proving results into convincing modelling and reasoning of several stringent safety cases that contribute towards the certification of high-assurance systems.

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“…Presently, the provers available within Rodin are restricted to integers. The issue of discretization is a complex one which we have addressed in another work [46]. Time: Time is a very important paramater in the domain of transportation and our model needs to incorporate it.…”

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Utilizing Event-B for domain engineering: a critical analysis

Mashkoor

Jacquot

2011

Requirements Eng

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This paper presents our experience of modeling land transportation domain in the formal framework of Event-B. Well-specified requirements are crucial for good software design; they depend on the understanding of the domain. Thus, domain engineering becomes an essential activity. The possibility to have a formal model of a domain, consistent with the use of formal methods for developing critical software working within it, is an important issue. Safety-critical domains, like transportation, exhibit interesting features, such as high levels of non-determinism, complex interactions, stringent safety properties, multifaceted timing attributes, etc. The formal representation of these features is a challenging task. We explore the possibility of utilizing Event-B as a domain engineering tool. We discuss the problems we faced during this exercise and how we tackled them. Special attention is devoted to the issue of the validation of the model, in particular with a technique based on the animation of specifications. Event-B is mature enough to be an effective tool to model domains except in some areas, temporal properties mainly, where more work is still needed.

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Scaling Up with Event-B: A Case Study

Cited by 11 publications

References 13 publications

An Interval-Based Approach to Modelling Time in Event-B

An Interval-Based Approach to Modelling Time in Event-B

Using Probabilistic Analysis for the Certification of Machine Control Systems

Utilizing Event-B for domain engineering: a critical analysis

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