Title
Symbolic Verification and Analysis of Discrete Timed Systems
Abstract
This paper presents a novel approach for real-time model checking. It combines the efficiency of traditional symbolic model checking with possibilities to describe and specify real-time systems. Using multi-terminal binary decision diagrams to represent time and time intervals, it becomes possible to transfer efficient algorithms and optimization heuristics known from standard CTL model checking to real-time applications. By introducing a new variant of models called I/O-interval structures we can describe systems in a modular way. Interval structures allow model composition of real-time structures such that state explosion effects are greatly reduced. Besides model checking we also present analysis algorithms which allow to compute key properties like system latencies and minimal response times from the structures describing the system. The practical applicability is proven by experimental results, computed by the verification system RAVEN, which implements all described algorithms, including counterexample generation and waveform visualization.
Year
DOI
Venue
2003
10.1023/A:1024437214071
Formal Methods in System Design
Keywords
Field
DocType
formal verification,real-time systems,symbolic model checking,multi terminal binary decision diagrams
Abstraction model checking,Model checking,Computer science,Algorithm,Binary decision diagram,Real-time computing,Theoretical computer science,Heuristics,Counterexample,Modular design,Formal verification,Symbolic trajectory evaluation
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
23
1
1572-8102
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.57
29
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jürgen Ruf112223.04
Thomas Kropf232659.09