Title
Putting Advanced Reachability Analysis Techniques Together: the "ARA" Tool
Abstract
ARA is a verification tool which applies some recent improved speed verification techniques. ARA accepts as input systems described in Basic Lotos. With ARA, a system can be verified by showing that it is behaviourally equivalent with its specification. For comparing behaviours, ARA uses a novel CSP-like but catastrophe-free behavioural equivalence notion called CFFD-equivalence. ARA can also reduce the behaviour of the system into a small normal form, and show the result graphically. ARA applies two techniques to cope with the state explosion problem: compositional LTS construction and the stubborn set method. The paper contains a detailed example of the validation of a communication protocol using ARA. The paper concentrates on the intuition behind the various novel ideas of ARA; formal details are mostly omitted.
Year
DOI
Venue
1993
10.1007/BFb0024669
FME
Keywords
Field
DocType
advanced reachability analysis,communication protocol,normal form
Computer science,Intuition,Reachability,Theoretical computer science,Real-time computing,Linear temporal logic,Equivalence (measure theory),Communications protocol
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
3-540-56662-7
24
1.45
References 
Authors
19
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Antti Valmari11710149.51
J. Kemppainen2242.13
Matthew Clegg316712.51
Mikko Levanto4303.00