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Symbolic invariant verification for systems with dynamic structural adaptation

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ICSE '06: Proceedings of the 28th international conference on Software engineering

Pages 72 - 81

https://doi.org/10.1145/1134285.1134297

Published: 28 May 2006 Publication History

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The next generation of networked mechatronic systems will be characterized by complex coordination and structural adaptation at run-time. Crucial safety properties have to be guaranteed for all potential structural configurations. Testing cannot provide safety guarantees, while current model checking and theorem proving techniques do not scale for such systems. We present a verification technique for arbitrarily large multi-agent systems from the mechatronic domain, featuring complex coordination and structural adaptation. We overcome the limitations of existing techniques by exploiting the local character of structural safety properties. The system state is modeled as a graph, system transitions are modeled as rule applications in a graph transformation system, and safety properties of the system are encoded as inductive invariants (permitting the verification of infinite state systems). We developed a symbolic verification procedure that allows us to perform the computation on an efficient BDD-based graph manipulation engine, and we report performance results for several examples.

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ICSE '06: Proceedings of the 28th international conference on Software engineering

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DOI:10.1145/1134285

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