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Parallel Processes with Real-Time and Data: The ATLANTIF Intermediate Format

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To model real-life critical systems, one needs“high-level” languages to express three important concepts: complex data structures, concurrency, and real-time. So far, the verification of timed systems has been successfully applied to “low-level” models, such as timed extensions of automata or of Petri nets. To bridge the gap between high-level languages, which allow a concise modeling of systems, and low-level models, for which efficient algorithms and tools have been designed, intermediate models are needed. In this paper, we propose the Atlantif intermediate model, an extension with real-time and concurrency of the Ntif (New Technology Intermediate Format) intermediate model. We define the formal semantics of Atlantif and present a translator from Atlantif to timed automata (for verification using Uppaal), and to time Petri nets (for verification using Tina).

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  • Model Checker
  • Global State
  • Discrete State
  • Urgent Action
  • Intermediate Model

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Stöcker, J., Lang, F., Garavel, H. (2009). Parallel Processes with Real-Time and Data: The ATLANTIF Intermediate Format. In: Leuschel, M., Wehrheim, H. (eds) Integrated Formal Methods. IFM 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5423. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-00255-7_7

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