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This tutorial paper surveys the main features of Uppaal SMC, a model checking approach in Uppaal family that allows us to reason on networks of complex real-timed systems with a stochastic semantic. We demonstrate the modeling features of the tool, new verification algorithms and ways of applying them to potentially complex case studies.

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Notes

  1. Exceptions being stochastic TAs with 0 or 1 clocks and with \(p\) being 0 or 1.

  2. This may require moving local variables to the global scope to make the state visible.

  3. Uppaal SMC detects Zeno runs and rejects models producing them.

  4. The actual controller is not important for this example and is not given here.

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The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Union Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007–2013) under grant agreements No. 318490 (SENSATION) and No. 601148 (CASSTING). Also the research has received funding from the Sino-Danish Basic Research Center IDEA4CPS funded by the Danish National Research Foundation and the National Science Foundation China. EU ARTEMIS grant agreement No. 269335 (MBAT).

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    Alexandre David, Kim G. Larsen, Marius Mikučionis & Danny Bøgsted Poulsen

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David, A., Larsen, K.G., Legay, A. et al. Uppaal SMC tutorial. Int J Softw Tools Technol Transfer 17, 397–415 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10009-014-0361-y

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