ISSN:
1572-8102
Keywords:
abstract interpretation
;
simulation
;
property preservation
;
model-checking
Source:
Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
Topics:
Computer Science
Notes:
Abstract We study property preserving transformations for reactive systems. The main idea is the use of simulations parameterized by Galois connections (α, γ), relating the lattices of properties of two systems. We propose and study a notion of preservation of properties expressed by formulas of a logic, by a function α mapping sets of states of a systemS into sets of states of a systemS'. We give results on the preservation of properties expressed in sublanguages of the branching time μ-calculus when two systemsS andS' are related via (α, γ)-simulations. They can be used to verify a property for a system by verifying the same property on a simpler system which is an abstraction of it. We show also under which conditions abstraction of concurrent systems can be computed from the abstraction of their components. This allows a compositional application of the proposed verification method. This is a revised version of the papers [2] and [16]; the results are fully developed in [28].
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF01384313
