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Analysis and Application of Min-Cost Transition Systems to Business Process Management
To improve the efficiency of conformance checking in process mining, new alignment approaches are presented between event logs and process models based on the min-cost transition systems of Petri nets. An algorithm is presented to obtain the transition system with the minimum cost based on the product of the event net and process net. The min-cost transition system is a directed acyclic graph, where the paths from the initial node to the final node include all optimal alignments between the trace and the process model based on the given cost function. Two algorithms are proposed to calculate an optimal alignment and all optimal alignments, respectively. All algorithms are implemented in ProM platform. After a series of the simulation experiments, the feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed approaches are illustrated
Advanced Symbolic Analysis Tools for Fault-Tolerant Integrated Distributed Systems
The project aims to develop advanced model-checking algorithms and tools to automate the verification of fault-tolerant distributed systems for avionics. We present a new method called Property-Directed K-Induction (PD-KIND) for synthesizing K-inductive invariants of state-transition systems. PD-KIND builds upon Satifiability Modulo Theories (SMT) to generalize Bradley's IC3 method and its variants. This method is implemented in a new tool called SALLY. Case studies show that PD-KIND can automatically verify fault-tolerant algorithms under a variety of fault models and that SALLY is competitive with other SMT-based model checkers
A Supervisory Control Algorithm Based on Property-Directed Reachability
We present an algorithm for synthesising a controller (supervisor) for a
discrete event system (DES) based on the property-directed reachability (PDR)
model checking algorithm. The discrete event systems framework is useful in
both software, automation and manufacturing, as problems from those domains can
be modelled as discrete supervisory control problems. As a formal framework,
DES is also similar to domains for which the field of formal methods for
computer science has developed techniques and tools. In this paper, we attempt
to marry the two by adapting PDR to the problem of controller synthesis. The
resulting algorithm takes as input a transition system with forbidden states
and uncontrollable transitions, and synthesises a safe and
minimally-restrictive controller, correct-by-design. We also present an
implementation along with experimental results, showing that the algorithm has
potential as a part of the solution to the greater effort of formal supervisory
controller synthesis and verification.Comment: 16 pages; presented at Haifa Verification Conference 2017, the final
publication is available at Springer via
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70389-3_
Automatic Generation of Minimal Cut Sets
A cut set is a collection of component failure modes that could lead to a
system failure. Cut Set Analysis (CSA) is applied to critical systems to
identify and rank system vulnerabilities at design time. Model checking tools
have been used to automate the generation of minimal cut sets but are generally
based on checking reachability of system failure states. This paper describes a
new approach to CSA using a Linear Temporal Logic (LTL) model checker called BT
Analyser that supports the generation of multiple counterexamples. The approach
enables a broader class of system failures to be analysed, by generalising from
failure state formulae to failure behaviours expressed in LTL. The traditional
approach to CSA using model checking requires the model or system failure to be
modified, usually by hand, to eliminate already-discovered cut sets, and the
model checker to be rerun, at each step. By contrast, the new approach works
incrementally and fully automatically, thereby removing the tedious and
error-prone manual process and resulting in significantly reduced computation
time. This in turn enables larger models to be checked. Two different
strategies for using BT Analyser for CSA are presented. There is generally no
single best strategy for model checking: their relative efficiency depends on
the model and property being analysed. Comparative results are given for the
A320 hydraulics case study in the Behavior Tree modelling language.Comment: In Proceedings ESSS 2015, arXiv:1506.0325
Using Canonical Forms for Isomorphism Reduction in Graph-based Model Checking
Graph isomorphism checking can be used in graph-based model checking to achieve symmetry reduction. Instead of one-to-one comparing the graph representations of states, canonical forms of state graphs can be computed. These canonical forms can be used to store and compare states. However, computing a canonical form for a graph is computationally expensive. Whether computing a canonical representation for states and reducing the state space is more efficient than using canonical hashcodes for states and comparing states one-to-one is not a priori clear. In this paper these approaches to isomorphism reduction are described and a preliminary comparison is presented for checking isomorphism of pairs of graphs. An existing algorithm that does not compute a canonical form performs better that tools that do for graphs that are used in graph-based model checking. Computing canonical forms seems to scale better for larger graphs
Chaining Test Cases for Reactive System Testing (extended version)
Testing of synchronous reactive systems is challenging because long input
sequences are often needed to drive them into a state at which a desired
feature can be tested. This is particularly problematic in on-target testing,
where a system is tested in its real-life application environment and the time
required for resetting is high. This paper presents an approach to discovering
a test case chain---a single software execution that covers a group of test
goals and minimises overall test execution time. Our technique targets the
scenario in which test goals for the requirements are given as safety
properties. We give conditions for the existence and minimality of a single
test case chain and minimise the number of test chains if a single test chain
is infeasible. We report experimental results with a prototype tool for C code
generated from Simulink models and compare it to state-of-the-art test suite
generators.Comment: extended version of paper published at ICTSS'1
BigraphER: rewriting and analysis engine for bigraphs
BigraphER is a suite of open-source tools providing an effi-
cient implementation of rewriting, simulation, and visualisation for bigraphs,
a universal formalism for modelling interacting systems that
evolve in time and space and first introduced by Milner. BigraphER consists
of an OCaml library that provides programming interfaces for the
manipulation of bigraphs, their constituents and reaction rules, and a
command-line tool capable of simulating Bigraphical Reactive Systems
(BRSs) and computing their transition systems. Other features are native
support for both bigraphs and bigraphs with sharing, stochastic reaction
rules, rule priorities, instantiation maps, parameterised controls, predicate
checking, graphical output and integration with the probabilistic
model checker PRISM
Abstraction in directed model checking
Abstraction is one of the most important issues to cope with large and infinite state spaces in model checking and to reduce the verification efforts. The abstract system is smaller than the original one and if the abstract system satisfies a correctness specification, so does the concrete one. However, abstractions may introduce a behavior violating the specification that is not present in the original system.
This paper bypasses this problem by proposing the combination of abstraction with heuristic search to improve error detection. The abstract system is explored in order to create a database that stores the exact distances from abstract states to the set of abstract error states. To check, whether or not the abstract behavior is present in the original system, effcient exploration algorithms exploit the database as a guidance
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