Title
Dynamic State Machines for Formalizing Railway Control System Specifications
Abstract
activities regulated by international standards which explicitly recommend the usage of Finite State Machines (FSMs) to model the specification of the system under test. Despite the great number of work addressing the usage of FSMs and their extensions, actual model-driven verification processes still lacks concise and expressive enough notations, able to easily capture characteristic features of specific domains. This paper introduces DSTM4Rail, a hierarchical state machines formalism to be used in verification contexts, whose peculiarity mainly resides in the semantics of fork-and-join which allows dynamic (bounded) instantiation of machines (processes). The formalism described in this paper is industry driven, as it raises from real industrial needs in the context of an European project. Hence, the proposed semantics is motivated by illustrating concrete issues in modeling specific functionalities of the Radio Block Centre, the vital core of the ERTMS/ETCS Control System.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1007/978-3-319-17581-2_7
Communications in Computer and Information Science
Keywords
Field
DocType
State machine,Dynamic instantiation,Railway control system,Metamodel,Model driven,System testing,CRYSTAL
System under test,Programming language,Simulation,Computer science,System testing,Finite-state machine,Control system,Formalism (philosophy),Semantics,Metamodeling,Bounded function
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
476
1865-0929
8
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.58
9
9
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Roberto Nardone110815.07
Ugo Gentile2366.52
Adriano Peron338145.82
Massimo Benerecetti428734.60
valeria vittorini533933.14
Stefano Marrone617425.49
Renato De Guglielmo7151.73
Nicola Mazzocca867478.37
Luigi Velardi9293.64