Communicating Actor Automata -- Modelling Erlang Processes as Communicating Machines

Brand and Zafiropulo's notion of Communicating Finite-State Machines (CFSMs) provides a succinct and powerful model of message-passing concurrency, based around channels. However, a major variant of message-passing concurrency is not readily captured by CFSMs: the actor model. In this work, we define a variant of CFSMs, called Communicating Actor Automata, to capture the actor model of concurrency as provided by Erlang: with mailboxes, from which messages are received according to repeated application of pattern matching. Furthermore, this variant of CFSMs supports dynamic process topologies, capturing common programming idioms in the context of actor-based message-passing concurrency. This gives a new basis for modelling, specifying, and verifying Erlang programs. We also consider a class of CAAs that give rise to freedom from race conditions.Comment: In Proceedings PLACES 2023, arXiv:2304.0543

Composing Communicating Systems, Synchronously

Communicating systems are nowadays part of everyday life, yet programming and analysing them is difficult. One of the many reasons for this difficulty is their size, hence compositional approaches are a need. We discuss how to ensure relevant communication properties such as deadlock freedom in a compositional way. The idea is that communicating systems can be composed by taking two of their participants and transforming them into coupled forwarders connecting the two systems. It has been shown that, for asynchronous communications, if the participants are \u201ccompatible\u201d then composition satisfies relevant communication properties provided that the single systems satisfy them. We show that such a result changes considerably for synchronous communications. We also discuss a different form of composition, where a unique forwarder is used

Composing Communicating Systems, Synchronously

Conference moved to 2021 due to covid-19International audienceCommunicating systems are nowadays part of everyday life, yet programming and analysing them is difficult. One of the many reasons for this difficulty is their size, hence compositional approaches are a need. We discuss how to ensure relevant communication properties such as deadlock freedom in a compositional way. The idea is that communicating systems can be composed by taking two of their participants and transforming them into coupled forwarders connecting the two systems. It has been shown that, for asynchronous communications, if the participants are "compatible" then composition satisfies relevant communication properties provided that the single systems satisfy them. We show that such a result changes considerably for synchronous communications. We also discuss a different form of composition, where a unique forwarder is used

Computer Aided Verification

This open access two-volume set LNCS 11561 and 11562 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Computer Aided Verification, CAV 2019, held in New York City, USA, in July 2019. The 52 full papers presented together with 13 tool papers and 2 case studies, were carefully reviewed and selected from 258 submissions. The papers were organized in the following topical sections: Part I: automata and timed systems; security and hyperproperties; synthesis; model checking; cyber-physical systems and machine learning; probabilistic systems, runtime techniques; dynamical, hybrid, and reactive systems; Part II: logics, decision procedures; and solvers; numerical programs; verification; distributed systems and networks; verification and invariants; and concurrency

Contribution to the verification of timed automata (determinization, quantitative verification and reachability in networks of automata)

Cette thèse porte sur la vérification des automates temporisés, un modèle bien établi pour les systèmes temps-réels. La thèse est constituée de trois parties. La première est dédiée à la déterminisation des automates temporisés, problème qui n'a pas de solution en général. Nous proposons une méthode approchée (sur-approximation, sous-approximation, mélange des deux) fondée sur la construction d'un jeu de sûreté. Cette méthode améliore les approches existantes en combinant leurs avantages respectifs. Nous appliquons ensuite cette méthode de déterminisation à la génération automatique de tests de conformité. Dans la seconde partie, nous prenons en compte des aspects quantitatifs des systèmes temps-réel grâce à une notion de fréquence des états acceptants dans une exécution d'un automate temporisé. Plus précisément, la fréquence d'une exécution est la proportion de temps passée dans les états acceptants. Nous intéressons alors à l'ensemble des fréquences des exécutions d'un automate temporisé pour étudier, par exemple, le vide de langages seuils. Nous montrons ainsi que les bornes de l'ensemble des fréquences sont calculables pour deux classes d'automates temporisés. D'une part, les bornes peuvent être calculées en espace logarithmique par une procédure non-déterministe dans les automates temporisés à une horloge. D'autre part, elles peuvent être calculées en espace polynomial dans les automates temporisés à plusieurs horloges ne contenant pas de cycles forçant la convergence d'horloges. Finalement, nous étudions le problème de l'accessibilité des états acceptants dans des réseaux d'automates temporisés qui communiquent via des files FIFO. Nous considérons tout d'abord des automates temporisés à temps discret, et caractérisons les topologies de réseaux pour lesquelles l'accessibilité est décidable. Cette caractérisation est ensuite étendue aux automates temporisés à temps continu.This thesis is about verification of timed automata, a well-established model for real time systems. The document is structured in three parts. The first part is dedicated to the determinization of timed automata, a problem which has no solution in general. We propose an approximate (over-approximation/under-approximation/mix) method based on the construction of a safety game. This method improves both existing approaches by combining their respective advantages. Then, we apply this determinization approach to the generation of conformance tests. In the second part, we take into account quantitative aspects of real time systems thanks to a notion of frequency of accepting states along executions of timed automata. More precisely, the frequency of a run is the proportion of time elapsed in accepting states. Then, we study the set of frequencies of runs of a timed automaton in order to decide, for example, the emptiness of threshold languages. We thus prove that the bounds of the set of frequencies are computable for two classes of timed automata. On the one hand, we prove that bounds are computable in logarithmic space by a non-deterministic procedure in one-clock timed automata. On the other hand, they can be computed in polynomial space in timed automata with several clocks, but having no cycle that forces the convergence between clocks. Finally, we study the reachability problem in networks of timed automata communicating through FIFO channels. We first consider dicrete timed automata, and characterize topologies of networks for which reachability is decidable. Then, this characterization is extended to dense-time automata.RENNES1-Bibl. électronique (352382106) / SudocSudocFranceF