v-Promela: a visual, object-oriented language for SPIN Export

@proceedings{citeulike:3452588, abstract = {Describes the design of VIP (Visual Interface for Promela), a graphical front-end to the model checker SPIN. VIP supports a visual formalism, called v-Promela, that connects the model checker to modern hierarchical notations for the specification of object-oriented, reactive systems. The formalism is comparable to formalisms such as UML-RT (Unified Modeling Language for Real-Time systems), ROOM (Real-time Object-Oriented Modeling) and Statecharts, but is presented in this paper in a framework that allows us to combine the benefits of a visual, hierarchical specification method with the power of LTL (linear temporal logic) model checking provided by SPIN. Like comparable formalisms, VIP can describe hierarchies of behaviour and of system structure. The formalism is designed to be transparent to the SPIN model checker itself, by allowing all central constructs to be translated mechanically into basic Promela, as already supported by the existing model checker}, author = {Leue, S. and Holzmann, G.}, booktitle = {Object-Oriented Real-Time Distributed Computing, 1999. (ISORC '99) Proceedings. 2nd IEEE International Symposium on}, citeulike-article-id = {3452588}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ISORC.1999.776345}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=776345}, day = {06}, doi = {10.1109/ISORC.1999.776345}, journal = {Object-Oriented Real-Time Distributed Computing, 1999. (ISORC '99) Proceedings. 2nd IEEE International Symposium on}, keywords = {model-checking, model-checkingspin}, month = {August}, pages = {14--23}, posted-at = {2008-10-27 08:01:30}, priority = {2}, title = {v-Promela: a visual, object-oriented language for SPIN}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ISORC.1999.776345}, year = {2002} }

TY - CONF ID - citeulike:3452588 L3 - citeulike-article-id:3452588 N2 - Describes the design of VIP (Visual Interface for Promela), a graphical front-end to the model checker SPIN. VIP supports a visual formalism, called v-Promela, that connects the model checker to modern hierarchical notations for the specification of object-oriented, reactive systems. The formalism is comparable to formalisms such as UML-RT (Unified Modeling Language for Real-Time systems), ROOM (Real-time Object-Oriented Modeling) and Statecharts, but is presented in this paper in a framework that allows us to combine the benefits of a visual, hierarchical specification method with the power of LTL (linear temporal logic) model checking provided by SPIN. Like comparable formalisms, VIP can describe hierarchies of behaviour and of system structure. The formalism is designed to be transparent to the SPIN model checker itself, by allowing all central constructs to be translated mechanically into basic Promela, as already supported by the existing model checker JF - Object-Oriented Real-Time Distributed Computing, 1999. (ISORC '99) Proceedings. 2nd IEEE International Symposium on EP - 23 TI - v-Promela: a visual, object-oriented language for SPIN T2 - Object-Oriented Real-Time Distributed Computing, 1999. (ISORC '99) Proceedings. 2nd IEEE International Symposium on SP - 14 KW - model-checking KW - model-checkingspin AU - Leue, S AU - Holzmann, G PY - 2002/08/06/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ISORC.1999.776345 ER -