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Automated Generation of Consistent Graph Models with First-Order Logic Theorem Provers

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Abstract

The automated generation of graph models has become an enabler in several testing scenarios, including the testing of modeling environments used in the design of critical systems, or the synthesis of test contexts for autonomous vehicles. Those approaches rely on the automated construction of consistent graph models, where each model satisfies complex structural properties of the target domain captured in first-order logic predicates. In this paper, we propose a transformation technique to map such graph generation tasks to a problem consisting of first-order logic formulae, which can be solved by state-of-the-art TPTP-compliant theorem provers, producing valid graph models as outputs. We conducted performance measurements over all 73 theorem provers available in the TPTP library, and compared our approach with other solver-based approaches like Alloy and VIATRA Solver.

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Domain-Specific Modeling Languages Model Generation Theorem Provers 
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Acknowledgements

The first author was partially supported by the Fonds de recherche du Québec - Nature et technologies (FRQNT) B1X scholarship (file number: 272709). This paper is partially supported by MTA-BME Lendület Research Group on Cyber-Physical Systems, and NSERC RGPIN-04573-16 project.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. 1.McGill UniversityMontrealCanada
  2. 2.MTA-BME Lendület Cyber-Physical Systems Research GroupBudapestHungary
  3. 3.Budapest University of Technology and EconomicsBudapestHungary

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