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Incremental Methods for Checking Real-Time Consistency

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Formal Modeling and Analysis of Timed Systems (FORMATS 2020)

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Requirements engineering is a key phase in the development process. Ensuring that requirements are consistent is essential so that they do not conflict and admit implementations. We consider the formal verification of rt-consistency, which imposes that the inevitability of definitive errors of a requirement should be anticipated, and that of partial consistency, which was recently introduced as a more effective check. We generalize and formalize both notions for discrete-time timed automata, develop three incremental algorithms, and present experimental results.

This work was partially funded by ANR project Ticktac (ANR-18-CE40-0015), and by a MERCE/Inria collaboration.

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  1. Univ Rennes, INRIA, CNRS, Rennes, France

    Thierry Jéron, Nicolas Markey & Ocan Sankur

  2. Mitsubishi Electrics R&D Centre Europe, Rennes, France

    David Mentré & Reiya Noguchi

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Jéron, T., Markey, N., Mentré, D., Noguchi, R., Sankur, O. (2020). Incremental Methods for Checking Real-Time Consistency. In: Bertrand, N., Jansen, N. (eds) Formal Modeling and Analysis of Timed Systems. FORMATS 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12288. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-57628-8_15

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