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Parametrised Modal Interface Automata

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Antti Siirtola,

Keijo HeljankoAuthors Info & Claims

ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems (TECS), Volume 14, Issue 4

Article No.: 65, Pages 1 - 25

https://doi.org/10.1145/2776892

Published: 09 September 2015 Publication History

Abstract

Interface theories (ITs) enable us to analyse the compatibility interfaces and refine them while preserving their compatibility. However, most ITs are for finite state interfaces, whereas computing systems are often parametrised involving components, the number of which cannot be fixed. We present, to our knowledge, the first IT that allows us to specify a parametric number of interfaces. Moreover, we provide a fully algorithmic procedure, implemented in a tool, for checking the compatibility of and refinement between parametrised interfaces. Finally, we show that the restrictions of the technique are necessary; removing any of them renders the refinement checking problem undecidable.

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Index Terms

Parametrised Modal Interface Automata
1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software notations and tools
    1. Context specific languages
      1. Interface definition languages
  2. Software organization and properties
    1. Software functional properties
      1. Formal methods
        Model checking
2. Theory of computation
  1. Models of computation
    1. Computability
    2. Concurrency

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DOI:10.1145/2821757

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Published: 09 September 2015

Accepted: 01 May 2015

Revised: 01 May 2015

Received: 01 October 2014

Published in TECS Volume 14, Issue 4

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02146-7_13
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