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PranCS: A Protocol and Discrete Controller Synthesis Tool

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Dependable Software Engineering. Theories, Tools, and Applications (SETTA 2017)

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PranCS is a tool for synthesizing protocol adapters and discrete controllers. It exploits general search techniques such as simulated annealing and genetic programming for homing in on correct solutions, and evaluates the fitness of candidates by using model-checking results. Our Proctocol and Controller Synthesis (PranCS) tool uses NuSMV as a back-end for the individual model-checking tasks and a simple candidate mutator to drive the search.

PranCS is also designed to explore the parameter space of the search techniques it implements. In this paper, we use PranCS to study the influence of turning various parameters in the synthesis process.

This work was supported by the Ministry of Higher Education in Iraq through the University of Kirkuk and by the EPSRC through grant EP/M027287/1.

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    Idress Husien, Sven Schewe & Nicolas Berthier

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  1. Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark

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    Oleg Sokolsky

  3. National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, China

    Ji Wang

Appendix A Pseud-Code to NuSMV Translation Example

Appendix A Pseud-Code to NuSMV Translation Example

To evaluate the fitness of the produced program, it is first translated into the language of the model checker NuSMV [6]. We have used the translation method suggested by Clark and Jacob [7].

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Translation example – source pseudo-code (left) and target NuSMV (right)

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In this translation, the program is converted into very simple statements, similar to assembly language. To simplify the translation, the program lines are first labeled, and this label is then used as a pointer that represents the program counter (PC). From this intermediate language, the NuSMV model is built by creating (case) and (next) statements that use the PC. Figure 3 shows the translation of a mutual exclusion algorithm.

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Husien, I., Schewe, S., Berthier, N. (2017). PranCS: A Protocol and Discrete Controller Synthesis Tool. In: Larsen, K., Sokolsky, O., Wang, J. (eds) Dependable Software Engineering. Theories, Tools, and Applications. SETTA 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10606. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69483-2_20

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