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Real-time computer systems are software or hardware systems which have to perform their tasks according to a time schedule. Formal verification is a widely used technique to make sure if a real-time system has correct time behavior. Using formal methods requires providing support for non-deterministic specification for time constraints which is realized by time intervals. Timed-Rebeca is an actor-based modeling language which is equipped with a verification tool. The values of timing features in this language are positive integer numbers and zero (discrete values). In this paper, Timed-Rebeca is extended to support modeling timed actor systems with time intervals. The semantics of this extension is defined in terms of Interval-Time Transition System (ITTS) which is developed based on the standard semantics of Timed-Rebeca. In ITTS, instead of integer values, time intervals are associated with system states and the notion of shift equivalence relation in ITTS is used to make the transition system finite. As there is a bisimulation relation between the states of ITTS and finite ITTS, it can be used for verification against branching-time properties.
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In this paper we use rebec and actor interchangeably.
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Tavassoli, S., Khosravi, R., Khamespanah, E. (2020). Finite Interval-Time Transition System for Real-Time Actors. In: S. Barbosa, L., Ali Abam, M. (eds) Topics in Theoretical Computer Science. TTCS 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12281. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-57852-7_7
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