Scenario-Based Analysis and Synthesis of Real-Time Systems Using Uppaal

Abstract—We propose an automated, tool-supported approach to scenario-based analysis and synthesis of real-time embedded systems. The inter-object behaviors of a system are modeled as a set of live sequence charts (LSCs), and the scenario-based user requirement is specified as a separate LSC. By translating the set of LSC charts into a behavior-equivalent network of timed automata (TA), we reduce the problems of model consistency checking and property verification to classical CTL real-time model checking problems, and reduce the problem of centralized synthesis for open systems to a timed game solving problem. We implement a prototype LSC-to-TA translator, which can be linked to existing real-time model checker UPPAAL and timed game solver UPPAAL-TIGA. Preliminary experiments on a number of examples show that it is a viable approach. I

Verifying Real-Time Systems against Scenario-Based Requirements

Abstract. We propose an approach to automatic verification of realtime systems against scenario-based requirements. A real-time system is modeled as a network of Timed Automata (TA), and a scenario-based requirement is specified as a Live Sequence Chart (LSC). We define a trace-based semantics for a kernel subset of the LSC language. By equivalently translating an LSC chart into an observer TA and then nonintrusively composing this observer with the original system model, the problem of verifying a real-time system against a scenario-based requirement reduces to a classical real-time model checking problem. We show how this is accomplished in the context of the Uppaal model checker.

Scenario-based verification of real-time systems using UPPAAL

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