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Verifying Temporal Properties of Stigmergic Collective Systems Using CADP

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We introduce an automated workflow to verify a variety of temporal properties on systems of agents that interact through virtual stigmergies. By mechanically reducing the property and the system under verification to an MCL query and a sequential LNT program (both MCL and LNT being languages available in the CADP formal verification toolbox), we may reuse efficient model-checking procedures that can give us a verdict on whether the property is satisfied by the system. Among other things, this procedure allows us to verify that a system satisfies a given predicate infinitely often during its execution, which is an improvement over previous verification approaches. We demonstrate the capabilities of this workflow by verifying a selection of example systems. Additionally, we present preliminary results showing that this workflow may also generate parallel LNT programs and exploit compositional verification techniques, which is likely to improve the analysis performance.

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  • Collective adaptive systems
  • Virtual stigmergy
  • Temporal logics
  • Model checking

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    http://cadp.inria.fr.

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    Artifacts related to the experiments presented in this work are available as a repository (https://gitlab.inria.fr/ldistefa/labs2lnt-artifacts).

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    http://cadp.inria.fr/man/mcl.html.

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    http://cadp.inria.fr/man/evaluator.html.

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    https://github.com/labs-lang/sliver.

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    https://www.grid5000.fr.

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    We use divbranching as shorthand for divergence-preserving branching.

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    E.g., the Distributor tool: see https://cadp.inria.fr/man/distributor.html.

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The authors wish to thank Radu Mateescu for his precious insights into MCL. Experiments presented in this paper were carried out using the Grid’5000 testbed, supported by a scientific interest group hosted by Inria and including CNRS, RENATER and several Universities as well as other organizations.

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Di Stefano, L., Lang, F. (2021). Verifying Temporal Properties of Stigmergic Collective Systems Using CADP. In: Margaria, T., Steffen, B. (eds) Leveraging Applications of Formal Methods, Verification and Validation. ISoLA 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 13036. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-89159-6_29

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