Event Category: Colloquium

The Hennessy-Milner Logic (HML) is a modal logic that expresses behavioural properties of states in LTSs. We are interested in explaining behavioural inequivalence by constructing a formula that /distinguishes/ a pair of states, i.e. a formula that is true in exactly one of the states. Cleaveland presented a method to generate a HML-formula by back-tracking …continue reading

Modelling the behaviour of a system, and stepwise refining that model until it has become sufficiently detailed to generate executable implementation is an appealing approach to software development, advocated by companies such as, e.g. Verum. The approach is rooted in solid mathematics and supported by tools, such as mCRL2, that help the developer. Under the …continue reading

Model checking approaches to software product lines are doubly cursed. Not only high-dimensionality regarding the number of states may be troublesome, also the exponential number of options for a product raises a computational hindrance. In order to mitigate the latter, family-based verification, as opposed to product-based verification, has been proposed. In this talk we consider …continue reading

Concise process models in mCRL2 can be obtained by the use of data types such as lists and structured sorts. However, the addition of structure in the process parameters negatively affects static analysis tools such as constant elimination, parameter elimination and sum elimination which consider process parameters as single units in their analysis. To address …continue reading

The principal objective of our ongoing IRF project “Programs in the wild: Uncertainties, adaptability, and verification” is to provide a formal framework and tools for modelling and verifying the behaviour of systems characterised by a close interaction of a program with an unpredictable environment, like Cyber-Physical Systems (CPSs). In this talk we will discuss the …continue reading

Almost all practical software systems today are configurable. Huge configuration spaces, usually of size exponential in the number of configuration options or features, render their design, analysis, and explanation challenging tasks. In this talk, I will introduce the notion of “feature causality” to support explainability of configurable systems. Inspired by the seminal definition of actual …continue reading