Verifying Cloud Systems using a Bigraphical Maude-based Model Checker

Abstract

Formal methods are system design techniques based on rigorous mathematical models to build software systems. Our aim in this paper is to define formal specifications of cloud systems and offer analysis support to formally model check their inherent properties. Hence, we define a formal semantic framework, based on Bigraphical Reactive Systems (BRS), for specifying cloud architectures and their shape shifting to ensure service availability and quick scalability. Then, we propose a Bigraphical Maude-based Model Checker to formally verify some properties.