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Hybrid Rebeca: Modeling and Analyzing of Cyber-Physical Systems

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Cyber Physical Systems. Model-Based Design (CyPhy 2018, WESE 2018)

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In cyber-physical systems like automotive systems, there are components like sensors, actuators, and controllers that communicate asynchronously with each other. The computational model of actor supports modeling distributed asynchronously communicating systems. We propose Hybrid Rebeca language to support modeling of cyber-physical systems. Hybrid Rebeca is an extension of actor-based language Rebeca. In this extension, physical actors are introduced as new computational entities to encapsulate physical behaviors. To support various means of communication among the entities, the network is explicitly modeled as a separate entity from actors. We derive hybrid automata as the basis for analysis of Hybrid Rebeca models. We demonstrate the applicability of our approach through a case study in the domain of automotive systems. We use SpaceEx framework for the analysis of the case study.

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Notes

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    As the properties to be verified do not depend on the value of the speed, to minimize the analysis time, this value has been chosen.

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    The implementation can be found in https://github.com/jahandideh-iman/HybridRebeca.

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We would like to thank Edward Lee for his supports and patient guidance on modeling and analyzing CPSs, Tom Henzinger for his fruitful discussion on the extended actor model, and MohammadReza Mousavi and Ehsan Khamespanah for their useful contributions.

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Jahandideh, I., Ghassemi, F., Sirjani, M. (2019). Hybrid Rebeca: Modeling and Analyzing of Cyber-Physical Systems. In: Chamberlain, R., Taha, W., Törngren, M. (eds) Cyber Physical Systems. Model-Based Design. CyPhy WESE 2018 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11615. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-23703-5_1

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