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Ensuring the correctness of Critical Systems (CS) becomes more complex if we consider that their behaviour is the result of the concurrent execution of many components. Furthermore, any automaton–based representation of concurrent components yields an explosion in the number of states, thus limiting the use of Model–Checking (MC) verification techniques in practice. This article presents a compositional verification approach, which is formally supported by state–of–the–art MC tools. To facilitate and guarantee the verification of large CS, the proposed approach integrates MEDISTAM–RT (Spanish acronym of Method for System Design based on Analytic Transformation of Real–Time Models), CCTL temporal logic as the property specification formal language, and the formal language CSP+T, used to formally describe a model of the system to be verified. To show a practical use of the proposed approach, a critical part of a realistic industry project related to mobile phone communications is discussed.
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Mendoza, L.E., Capel, M.I., Pérez, M., Benghazi, K. (2009). Compositional Model-Checking Verification of Critical Systems. In: Filipe, J., Cordeiro, J. (eds) Enterprise Information Systems. ICEIS 2008. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 19. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-00670-8_16
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