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APLAS 2006: Programming Languages and Systems pp 234–252Cite as

An Analysis for Proving Temporal Properties of Biological Systems

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Abstract

This paper concerns the application of formal methods to biological systems, modeled specifically in BioAmbients [34], a variant of the Mobile Ambients [4] calculus. Following the semantic-based approach of abstract interpretation, we define a new static analysis that computes an abstract transition system. Our analysis has two main advantages with respect to the analyses appearing in literature: (i) it is able to address temporal properties which are more general than invariant properties; (ii) it supports, by means of a particular labeling discipline, the validation of systems where several copies of an ambient may appear.

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  • Model Check
  • Abstract State
  • Temporal Property
  • Abstract Interpretation
  • Reachability Analysis

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    Roberta Gori & Francesca Levi

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Gori, R., Levi, F. (2006). An Analysis for Proving Temporal Properties of Biological Systems. In: Kobayashi, N. (eds) Programming Languages and Systems. APLAS 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4279. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11924661_15

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