Abstract
The Functional Mock-up Interface (FMI) aims to support the interoperability in an interdisciplinary formal methods setting by describing an interface between different formal models in a tool co-simulation setting. However, the FMI standard describes the requirements for the static limitations on the interfaces in an informal manner using tables and textual descriptions. In this short paper we demonstrate how this kind of static constraints can be formalised using the Vienna Development Method Specification Language, and how the formalisation can be examined and validated exhaustively. Afterwards we present how this can be transferred into code in order to develop a tool that can be used by anyone using the FMI standard enabling a more well-founded basis in such an interdisciplinary setting, by having a formal description of the FMI interface.
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The work presented here is partially supported by the INTO-CPS project funded by the European Commission’s Horizon 2020 programme under grant agreement number 664047.
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Hasanagić, M., Tran-Jørgensen, P.W.V., Lausdahl, K., Larsen, P.G. (2016). Formalising and Validating the Interface Description in the FMI Standard. In: Fitzgerald, J., Heitmeyer, C., Gnesi, S., Philippou, A. (eds) FM 2016: Formal Methods. FM 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9995. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48989-6_21
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