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Assume-Guarantee Verification for Interface Automata

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Dimitra Giannakopoulou,

Corina S. PăsăreanuAuthors Info & Claims

FM '08: Proceedings of the 15th international symposium on Formal Methods

Pages 116 - 131

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-68237-0_10

Published: 26 May 2008 Publication History

Abstract

Interface automata provide a formalism capturing the high level interactions between software components. Checking compatibility, and other safety properties, in an automata-based system suffers from the scalability issues inherent in exhaustive techniques such as model checking. This work develops a theoretical framework and automated algorithms for modular verification of interface automata. We propose sound and complete assume-guarantee rules for interface automata, and learning-based algorithms to automate assumption generation. Our algorithms have been implemented in a practical model-checking tool and have been applied to a realistic NASA case study.

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