Title: Tools%20for%20Specification,%20Verification,%20and%20Synthesis%20of%20Reactive%20Systems
1Tools for Specification, Verification, and
Synthesis of Reactive Systems
- Tevfik Bultan
- Department of Computer Science
- University of California, Santa Barbara
- bultan_at_cs.ucsb.edu
- http//www.cs.ucsb.edu/bultan/
- http//www.cs.ucsb.edu/bultan/composite/
2Tools for Specification, Verification, and
Synthesis of Reactive Systems
Action Language specification
Action Language Parser
Code Generator
Omega Library
CUDD Package
Verified code
3Composite Model Checking
- Can model checking be extended to verification of
specifications with arithmetic constraints? - Bultan, Gerber, Pugh CAV97, TOPLAS99 Using
Presburger (linear) arithmetic constraints for
model checking infinite state systems - Problem Most specifications have a combination
of integer, boolean and enumerated variables - Bultan, Gerber, League ISSTA98, TOSEM00
Composite model checking - Model checking with type-specific symbolic
representations - Uses Presburger arithmetic constraints and BDDs
together
4Composite Symbolic Library Yavuz-Kahveci,
Tuncer, Bultan TACAS01, FROCOS02
- A symbolic manipulator that can handle boolean
and integer variables (linear arithmetic
constraints) - Built on top of other symbolic manipulators
- Omega Library Pugh et al. a Presburger
arithmetic formula manipulator (based on
polyhedral representations) - CUDD package Somenzi et al. a Boolean logic
formula manipulator (a BDD package) - Uses a disjunctive representation to combine
arithmetic constraints with BDDs - Uses an object oriented design
- Every symbolic representation is derived from an
abstract class - We wrote wrappers around Omega Library and CUDD
package - Can be extended to other variable types if a
symbolic representation is provided for them
5Action Language Bultan ICSE00 Bultan,
Yavuz-Kahveci ASE01
- Initial goal
- To develop an input specification language for
our composite model checker - Broader perspective
- Develop a low level specification language for
model checking - The language should be able to handle different
high level specification languages
6Applications
- Safety-critical system specifications
- SCR (tabular), Statecharts (hierarchical state
machines) specifications Bultan, Gerber, League
ISSTA98, TOSEM00 - Concurrent programs
- Synthesizing verified monitor classes from
specifications Yavuz-Kahveci, Bultan, 02 - Protocol verification
- Verification of parameterized cache coherence
protocols using counting abstraction Delzanno,
Bultan CP01 - Verification of workflow specifications
- Verification of acyclic decision flows Fu,
Bultan, Hull, Su TACAS01
7Outline
- Specification Language Action Language
- Synchronous vs. asynchronous composition
- Translating hierarchical and tabular
specifications to Action Language - Verification Engine
- Constraint-based verification
- Composite Symbolic Library
- Synthesizing Verified Monitors
- Airport Ground Traffic Control case study
- Related, Current and Future Work
8Model Checking View
- Every reactive system
- safety-critical software specification,
- cache coherence protocol,
- mutual exclusion algorithm, etc.
- is represented as a transition system
- S The set of states
- I ? S The set of initial states
- R ? S ? S The transition relation
9Model Checking View
- Properties of reactive systems are expressed in
temporal logics - Invariant(p) is true in a state if property p
is true in every state reachable from that state - Also known as AG
- Eventually(p) is true in a state if property p
is true at some state on every execution path
from that state - Also known as AF
10Action Language
- A state based language
- Actions correspond to state changes
- States correspond to valuations of variables
- Integer (possibly unbounded), boolean and
enumerated variables - Parameterized constants (verified for every
possible value of the constant) - Transition relation is defined using actions
- Atomic actions Predicates on current and next
state variables - Action composition
- synchronous () or asynchronous ()
- Modular
- Modules can have submodules
- Modules are defined as synchronous and
asynchronous compositions of its actions and
submodules
11Actions in Action Language
- Atomic actions Predicates on current and next
state variables - Current state variables reading, nr, busy
- Next state variables reading, nr, busy
- Logical operators not (!) and () or ()
- Equality (for all variable types)
- Linear arithmetic lt, gt, gt, lt, , (by a
constant) - An atomic action
- !reading and !busy and nrnr1 and reading
12An Action Language Specification
- module main()
- integer nr
- boolean busy
- restrict nrgt0
- initial nr0 and !busy
- module Reader()
- boolean reading
- initial !reading
- rEnter !reading and !busy and
- nrnr1 and reading
- rExit reading and !reading and nrnr-1
- Reader rEnter rExit
- endmodule
- module Writer()
- boolean writing
- initial !writing
- wEnter !writing and nr0 and !busy and
- busy and writing
- wExit writing and !writing and !busy
13A Closer Look
S Cartesian product of variable domains
defines the set of states
- module main()
- integer nr
- boolean busy
- restrict nrgt0
- initial nr0 and !busy
- module Reader()
- boolean reading
- initial !reading
- rEnter !reading and !busy and
- nrnr1 and reading
- rExit reading and !reading and nrnr-1
- Reader rEnter rExit
- endmodule
- module Writer()
- ...
- endmodule
-
I Predicates defining the initial states
R Atomic actions of the Reader
R Transition relation of Reader defined as
asynchronous composition of its atomic actions
R Transition relation of main defined as
asynchronous composition of two Reader and two
Writer processes
14Asynchronous Composition
- Asynchronous composition is equivalent to
disjunction if composed actions have the same
next state variables - a1 i gt 0 and i i 1
- a2 i lt 0 and i i 1
- a3 a1 a2
- is equivalent to
- a3 (i gt 0 and i i 1)
- or (i lt 0 and i i 1)
15Asynchronous Composition
- Asynchronous composition preserves values of
variables which are not explicitly updated - a1 i gt j and i j
- a2 i lt j and j i
- a3 a1 a2
- is equivalent to
- a3 (i gt j and i j) and j j
- or (i lt j and j i) and i i
16Synchronous Composition
- Synchronous composition is equivalent to
conjunction if two actions do not disable each
other - a1 i i 1
- a2 j j 1
- a3 a1 a2
- is equivalent to
- a3 i i 1 and j j 1
-
17Synchronous Composition
- A disabled action does not block synchronous
composition - a1 i lt max and i i 1
- a2 j lt max and j j 1
- a3 a1 a2
- is equivalent to
- a3 (i lt max and i i 1 or i gt max i i)
- and (j lt max j j 1 or j gt max j j)
18Statecharts Harel 87
- Hierarchical state machines
- States can be combined to form superstates
- OR decomposition of a superstate
- The system can be in only one of the OR states at
any given time - AND decomposition of a superstate
- The system has to be in both AND states at the
same time - Transitions
- Transitions between states
19Statecharts to Action Language
- Statecharts transitions (arcs) correspond to
actions - OR states correspond to enumerated variables and
they define the state space - Transitions (actions) of OR states are combined
using asynchronous composition - Transitions (actions) of AND states are combined
using synchronous composition
20Statecharts to Action Language
- module main()
- enumerated Alarm Shut, Op
- enumerated Mode On, Off
- enumerated Vol 1, 2
- initial AlarmShut and ModeOff and Vol1
- t1 AlarmShut and AlarmOp and ModeOn and
Vol1 - t2 AlarmShut and AlarmOp and ModeOff and
Vol1 - t3 AlarmOp and AlarmShut
- t4 AlarmOp and ModeOn and ModeOff
- t5 AlarmOp and ModeOff and ModeOn
- ...
- main t1 t2 t3
- (t4 t5) (t6 t7)
- endmodule
Alarm
Shut
t1
t2
Op
t3
Mode
Vol
On
1
t4
t5
t6
t7
Off
2
Preserves the structure of the Statecharts
specification
21SCR Courtois and Parnas 93, Heitmeyer et al.
96
- Tabular specifications
- Mode transition tables
- Condition tables
- Event tables
- Events
- _at_T(c) ?c ? c
- In action language !c and c
- _at_T(c) WHEN d ?c ? c ? d
- In action language !c and c and d
22SCR to Action Language
- Each row in an SCR table corresponds to an action
- The transition relation of a table is defined by
asynchronous composition of actions that
correspond to its rows - The transition relation of the whole system is
defined by synchronous composition of the
transition relations of the tables
23SCR to Action Language
- module main()
- enumerated Heater On, Off
- enumerated AC On, Off
- integer temp
- parameterized integer low, high
- initial lowlttemplthigh
- and HeaterACOff
- r1 !(templtlow) and templtlow
- and HeaterOff and HeaterOn
- r2 !(tempgtlow) and tempgtlow and HeaterOn
and HeaterOff - t_heat r1 r2
- ...
- main t_heat t_AC
- endmodule
Heater
Old Mode Event New Mode
Off _at_T(temp lt low) On
On _at_T(temp ? low) Off
AC
Old Mode Event New Mode
Off _at_T(temp gt high) On
On _at_T(temp ? high) Off
24Outline
- Specification Language Action Language
- Synchronous vs. asynchronous composition
- Translating hierarchical and tabular
specifications to Action Language - Verification Engine
- Constraint-based verification
- Composite Symbolic Library
- Synthesizing Verified Monitors
- Airport Ground Traffic Control case study
- Related, Current and Future Work
25Model Checking
- Given a program and a temporal property p
- Either show that all the initial states satisfy
the temporal property p - set of initial states ? truth set of p
- Or find an initial state which does not satisfy
the property p - a state ? set of initial states ? truth set of ?p
- and generate a counter-example starting from that
state
26Temporal Properties ? Fixpoints
backwardImage of ?p
Backward fixpoint
Initial states
?p
initial states that violate Invariant(p)
states that can reach ?p i.e., states that
violate Invariant(p)
Invariant(p)
Forward fixpoint
Initial states
?p
reachable states that violate p
reachable states of the system
forward image of initial states
27Symbolic Model Checking
- Represent sets of states and the transition
relation as Boolean logic formulas - Forward and backward fixpoints can be computed by
iteratively manipulating these formulas - Forward, backward image Existential variable
elimination - Conjunction (intersection), disjunction (union)
and negation (set difference), and equivalence
check - Use an efficient data structure for manipulation
of Boolean logic formulas - BDDs
28BDDs
- Efficient representation for boolean functions
- Disjunction, conjunction complexity at most
quadratic - Negation complexity constant
- Equivalence checking complexity constant or
linear - Image computation complexity can be exponential
29Constraint-Based Verification
- Can we use linear arithmetic constraints as a
symbolic representation? - Required functionality
- Disjunction, conjunction, negation, equivalence
checking, existential variable elimination - Advantages
- Arithmetic constraints can represent infinite
sets - Heuristics based on arithmetic constraints can be
used to accelerate fixpoint computations - Widening, loop-closures
30Linear Arithmetic Constraints
- Can be used to represent sets of valuations of
unbounded integers - Linear integer arithmetic formulas can be stored
as a set of polyhedra - where each ckl is a linear equality or
inequality constraint and each - is a polyhedron
31Linear Arithmetic Constraints
- Disjunction complexity linear
- Conjunction complexity quadratic
- Negation complexity can be exponential
- Because of the disjunctive representation
- Equivalence checking complexity can be
exponential - Uses existential variable elimination
- Image computation complexity can be exponential
- Uses existential variable elimination
32A Linear Arithmetic Constraint Manipulator
- Omega Library Pugh et al.
- Manipulates Presburger arithmetic formulas First
order theory of integers without multiplication - Equality and inequality constraints are not
enough Divisibility constraints are also needed - Existential variable elimination in Omega
Library Extension of Fourier-Motzkin variable
elimination to integers - Eliminating one variable from a conjunction of
constraints may double the number of constraints - Integer variables complicate the problem even
further - Can be handled using divisibility constraints
33How about Using BDDs for Encoding Arithmetic
Constraints?
- Arithmetic constraints on bounded integer
variables can be represented using BDDs - Use a binary encoding
- represent integer x as x0x1x2... xk
- where x0, x1, x2, ... , xk are binary variables
- You have to be careful about the variable
ordering!
34Arithmetic Constraints on Bounded Integer
Variables
- BDDs and constraint representations are both
applicable - Which one is better?
- A case study Verification of Workflow
Specifications
35Verification of Workflow Specifications Fu,
Bultan, Su, Hull 01
- Workflow Languages
- High-level languages for business applications
- Programming for non-programmers
- Vortex Language
- Module based
- Source attributes, target attributes
- Enabling conditions
- Rules, combining policies
- Declarative semantics
- Acyclic dependency graph
36Vortex Specifications
- Fast changing business logic
- Rule based logic changes frequently
- New rules added into system at any time
- Error prone process
- Automated verification?
37MIHU (May I Help yoU?)
? Runs behind Web Server ? Decides whether to
launch the customer representative service
38MIHU (May I Help yoU?)
Source Attributes Customer ID, Shopping cart,
history logs Target Attribute offer_AWD Integer
variables 40 Source lines 800
39Dependency Graph of MIHU
40Experiments
SUN ULTRA 10 (768 Mbyte main memory)
SMV(5bits) SMV(10bits) SMV(15bits) Action
P1 12s 9MB 16min 67MB 2.6hrs 86MB 10min 93MB
P2 32s 12MB 15min 66MB 2.9hrs 86MB 10min 93MB
P3 19s 10MB 18min 67MB 2.3hrs 87MB 27.7hrs 1GB
- SMV translation required several heuristics to
get it running - Disjunctive transition BDD, variable pruning,
initial image projection - SMV version does not converge in 30hrs when we
increase the integer widths to 16 bits - There are properties for which Action Language
Verifier did not converge but SMV converged for ?
15 bits - SMV gives a false negative for property P2 for 5
bits - Both SMV and Action Language Verifier found an
error for Property 3
41Arithmetic Constraints vs. BDDs
- Constraint based verification can be more
efficient than BDDs for integers with large
domains - BDD-based verification is more robust
- Constraint based approach does not scale well
when there are boolean or enumerated variables in
the specification - Constraint based verification can be used to
automatically verify infinite state systems - cannot be done using BDDs
- Price of infinity
- CTL model checking becomes undecidable
42Conservative Approximations
- Compute a lower ( p? ) or an upper ( p )
approximation to the truth set of the property (
p ) - Model checker can give three answers
p
p?
I
p
p?
I
The property is satisfied
I dont know
sates which violate the property
I
p
? p?
p
The property is false and here is a
counter-example
43Computing Upper and Lower Bounds
- Approximate fixpoint computations
- Widening To compute upper bound for
least-fixpoints - We use a generalization of the polyhedra widening
operator by Cousot and Halbwachs - Collapsing (dual of widening) To compute lower
bound for greatest-fixpoints - Truncated fixpoints To compute lower bounds for
least-fixpoints and upper bounds for greatest
fixpoints - Loop-closures
- Compute transitive closure of self-loops
- Can easily handle simple loops which increment or
decrement a counter
44Is There a Better Way?
- Each symbolic representation has its own
deficiencies - BDDs cannot represent infinite sets
- Linear arithmetic constraint representations are
expensive to manipulate - Mapping boolean variables to integers does not
scale - Eliminating boolean variables by partitioning the
state-space does not scale
45Composite Model Checking
- Each variable type is mapped to a symbolic
representation type - Map boolean and enumerated types to BDD
representation - Map integer type to arithmetic constraint
representation - Use a disjunctive representation to combine
symbolic representations - Each disjunct is a conjunction of formulas
represented by different symbolic representations
46Composite Formulas
- Composite formula (CF)
- CF CF ? CF CF ? CF ?CF BF IF
- Boolean Formula (BF)
- BF BF ? BF BF ? BF ?BF Termbool
- Termbool idbool true false
- Integer Formula (IF)
- IF IF ? IF IF ? IF ?IF Termint Rop
Termint - Termint Termint Aop Termint ?Termint
idint constantint - where
- Rop denotes relational operators (, ?, gt , lt,
?, ?), - Aop denotes arithmetic operators (,-, and
with a constant)
47Composite Representation
- Each composite formula A is represented as
-
-
- where
- n is the number of composite atoms in A
- t is the number of basic symbolic representations
- Sets of states and transitions are represented
using this disjunctive representation - Set operations and image computations are
performed on this disjunctive representation
48Conjunctive Decomposition
- Each composite atom is a conjunction
- Each conjunct corresponds to a different symbolic
representation - x integer y boolean
- xgt0 and xx1 and y?y
- Conjunct xgt0 and x?x1 will be represented by
arithmetic constraints - Conjunct y?y will be represented by a BDD
- Advantage Image computations can be distributed
over the conjunction (i.e., over different
symbolic representations).
49Composite Symbolic Library
- Our library implements this approach using an
object-oriented design - A common interface is used for each symbolic
representation - Easy to extend with new symbolic representations
- Enables polymorphic verification
- As a BDD library we use Colorado University
Decision Diagram Package (CUDD) Somenzi et al - As an integer constraint manipulator we use Omega
Library Pugh et al
50Composite Symbolic Library Class Diagram
Symbolic
- intersect()
- union()
- complement()
- isSatisfiable()
- isSubset()
- bacwardImage()
- forwardImage()
-
CUDD Library
OMEGA Library
51Composite Symbolic Representation
x integer, yboolean (xgt0 and x?x1 and
ytrue) or (xlt0 and x?x and y?y)
CompSym
representation ListltcompAtomgt
ListNodeltcompAtomgt
ListNodeltcompAtomgt
data compAtom
data compAtom
b
0
ytrue
0
yy
1
xgt0 and xx1
1
xlt0 and xx
next ListNodeltcompAtomgt
next ListNodeltcompAtomgt
52Satisfiability Checking
- boolean isSatisfiable(CompSym A)
- for each compAtom b in A do
- if b is satisfiable then
- return true
- return false
- boolean isSatisfiable(compAtom a)
- for each symbolic representation t do
- if at is not satisfiable then
- return false
- return true
is
Satisfiable?
true
false
false
true
is
is
is
is
and
?
Satisfiable?
Satisfiable?
Satisfiable?
53Backward Image Composite Representation
B
A
- CompSym backwardImage(Compsym A, CompSym B)
- CompSym C
- for each compAtom d in A do
- for each compAtom e in B do
- insert backwardImage(d,e) into C
- return C
-
C
54Backward Image Composite Atom
- compAtom backwardImage(compAtom a, compAtom b)
- for each symbolic representation type t do
- replace at by backwardImage(at , bt )
- return a
b
a
55Heuristics for Efficient Manipulation of
Composite Representation
- Masking
- Mask operations on integer arithmetic constraints
with operations on BDDs - Incremental subset check
- Exploit the disjunctive structure by computing
subset checks incrementally - Merge image computation with the subset check in
least-fixpoint computations - Simplification
- Reduce the number of disjuncts in the composite
representation by iteratively merging matching
disjuncts - Cache expensive operations on arithmetic
constraints
56Simplification Example
(y ? z z 1)
(x ? z z 1)
((x ? y) ? z gt z)
?
?
?
?
((x ? y) ? z gt z )
?
57Polymorphic Verifier
- Symbolic TranSyscheck(Node f)
-
-
-
- Symbolic s check(f.left)
- case EX
- s.backwardImage(transRelation)
- case EF
- do
- snew s
- sold s
- snew.backwardImage(transRelation)
- s.union(snew)
- while not sold.isEqual(s)
-
-
-
? Action Language Verifier is polymorphic ? When
there are no integer variable in the
specification it becomes a BDD based model
checker
58Bounded-Buffer Producer Consumer
2
pstatei pstatei1 producedproduced
countcount
Producer
1
i
pstateN pstate1 countltsize
producedproduced1 countcount1
N
2
cstatei cstatei1 consumedconsumed
countcount
i
Consumer
1
N
cstateN cstate1 countgt0
consumedconsumed1 countcount-1
59Experiment
SUN ULTRA 10 (768 Mbyte main memory)
CMC Our composite model checker OMC Our model
checker built on Omega-library Partitioned
Control states are eliminated by partitioning the
state space Mapped Control states are mapped
to integer variables
60Outline
- Model Checking
- Specification Language Action Language
- Synchronous vs. asynchronous composition
- Translating hierarchical and tabular
specifications to Action Language - Verification Engine
- Constraint-based verification
- Composite Symbolic Library
- Synthesizing Verified Monitors
- Airport Ground Traffic Control case study
- Related, Current and Future Work
61Synthesizing Verified Monitors Yavuz-Kahveci,
Bultan 02
- Concurrent programming is difficult
- Exponential increase in the number of states by
the number of concurrent components - Monitors provide scoping rules for concurrency
- Variables of a monitor can only be accessed by
monitors procedures - No two processes can be active in a monitor at
the same time - Java made programming using monitors a common
problem
62Monitor Basics
- A monitor has
- A set of shared variables
- A set of procedures
- which provide access to the shared variables
- A lock
- To execute a monitor procedure a process has to
grab the monitor lock - Only one process can be active (i.e. executing a
procedure) in the monitor at any given time
63Monitor Basics
- What happens if a process needs to wait until a
condition becomes true? - Create a condition variable that corresponds to
that condition - Each condition variable has a wait queue
- A process waits for a condition in the wait queue
of the corresponding condition variable - When a process updates the shared variables that
may cause a condition to become true - ? it signals the processes in the wait
queue of the corresponding condition variable
64Monitors
- Challenges in monitor programming
- Condition variables
- Wait and signal operations
- Why not use a single wait queue?
- Inefficient, every waiting process has to wake up
when any of the shared variables are updated - Even with a few condition variables coordinating
wait and signal operations can be difficult - Avoid deadlock
- Avoid inefficiency due to unnecessary signaling
65Monitor Specifications in Action Language
- Monitors with boolean, enumerated and integer
variables - Condition variables are not necessary in Action
Language - Semantics of Action Language ensures that an
action is executed when it is enabled - We can automatically verify Action Language
specifications - We can automatically synthesize efficient monitor
implementations from Action Language
specifications
66Readers-Writers Monitor Specification
- module main()
- integer nr
- boolean busy
- restrict nrgt0
- initial nr0 and !busy
- module Reader()
- boolean reading
- initial !reading
- rEnter !reading and !busy and
- nrnr1 and reading
- rExit reading and !reading and nrnr-1
- Reader rEnter rExit
- endmodule
- module Writer()
- boolean writing
- initial !writing
- wEnter !writing and nr0 and !busy and
- busy and writing
- wExit writing and !writing and !busy
67What About Arbitrary Number of Processes?
- Use counting abstraction Delzanno CAV00
- Create an integer variable for each local state
of a process type - Each variable will count the number of processes
in a particular state - Local states of the process types have to be
finite - Specify only the process behavior that relates to
the correctness of the monitor - Shared variables of the monitor can be unbounded
- Counting abstraction can be automated
68Readers-Writers Monitor Specification After
Counting Abstraction
- module main()
- integer nr
- boolean busy
- parameterized integer numReader, numWriter
- restrict nrgt0 and numReadergt0 and
numWritergt0 - initial nr0 and !busy
- module Reader()
- integer readingF, readingT
- initial readingFnumReader and readingT0
- rEnter readingFgt0 and !busy and
- nrnr1 and readingFreadingF-1 and
- readingTreadingT1
- rExit readingTgt0 and nrnr-1
readingTreadingT-1 and
readingFreadingF1 - Reader rEnter rExit
- endmodule
- module Writer()
- ...
- endmodule
- main Reader() Writer()
69Verification of Readers-Writers Monitor
Specification
Integers Booleans Cons. Time (secs.) Ver. Time (secs.) Memory (Mbytes)
RW-4 1 5 0.04 0.01 6.6
RW-8 1 9 0.08 0.01 7
RW-16 1 17 0.19 0.02 8
RW-32 1 33 0.53 0.03 10.8
RW-64 1 65 1.71 0.06 20.6
RW-P 7 1 0.05 0.01 9.1
SUN ULTRA 10 (768 Mbyte main memory)
70What about the Implementation?
- We can automatically generate code from the
monitor specification - Generate a Java class
- Make shared variables private variables
- Use synchronization to restrict access
- Is the generated code efficient
- Yes!
- We can synthesize the condition variables
automatically - There is no unnecessary thread notification
71Synthesized Monitor Class Uses Specific
Notification Pattern
- public class ReadersWriters
- private int nr
- private boolean busy
- private Object rEnterCond, wEnterCond
- private synchronized boolean Guard_rEnter()
- if (!busy)
- nr
- return true
-
- else return false
-
- public void rEnter()
- synchronized(rEnterCond)
- while(!Guard_rEnter())
- rEnterCond.wait()
-
- public void rExit()
- synchronized(this) nr--
- synchronized(wEnterCond) wEnterCond.notify()
All condition variables and wait and signal
operations are generated automatically
72Airport Ground Traffic Control
- Zhong 97 Modeling of airport operations using
an object oriented approach - A concurrent program simulating the airport
ground traffic control - multiple planes
- multiple runways and taxiways
- Can be used by controllers as advisory input
73A simplified model of Seattle Tacoma
International Airport from Zhong 97
74Control Logic
- An airplane can land using 16R only if no
airplane is using 16R at the moment - An airplane can takeoff using 16L only if no
airplane is using 16L at the moment - An airplane taxiing on one of the exits C3-C8 can
cross runway 16L only if no airplane is taking
off at the moment - An airplane can start using 16L for taking off
only if none of the crossing exits C3-C8 is
occupied at the moment (arriving airplanes have
higher priority) - Only one airplane can use a taxiway at a time
75Airport Ground Traffic Control Simulator
- Simulate behavior of each airplane with a thread
- Use a monitor which keeps track of number of
airplanes on each runway and each taxiway - Use guarded commands (which will become the
procedures of the monitor) to enforce the control
logic
76Airport Ground Traffic Control Monitor
- Action Language specification
- Has 13 integer variables
- Has 4 Boolean variables per arriving airplane
process to keep the local state of each airplane - Has 2 Boolean variables per departing airplane
process to keep the local state of each airplane - Automatically generated monitor class
- Has 13 integer variables
- Has 20 condition variables
- Has 34 procedures
77Experiments
Processes Construction Verify-P1 Verify-P2 Verify-P3
2 0.81 0.42 0.28 0.69
4 1.50 0.78 0.50 1.13
8 3.03 1.53 0.99 2.22
16 6.86 3.02 2.03 5.07
2A,PD 1.02 0.64 0.43 0.83
4A,PD 1.94 1.19 0.81 1.39
8A,PD 3.95 2.28 1.54 2.59
16A,PD 8.74 4.6 3.15 5.35
PA,2D 1.67 1.31 0.88 3.94
PA,4D 3.15 2.42 1.71 5.09
PA,8D 6.40 4.64 3.32 7.35
PA,16D 13.66 9.21 7.02 12.01
PA,PD 2.65 0.99 0.57 0.43
78Model Checking Software Specifications
- Atlee, Gannon 93 Translating SCR mode
transition tables to input language of explicit
state model checker EMC Clarke, Emerson, Sistla
86 - Chan et al. 98,00 Translating RSML
specifications to input language of symbolic
model checker SMV McMillan 93 - Bharadwaj, Heitmeyer 99 Translating SCR
specifications to Promela, input language of
automata-theoretic explicit state model checker
SPIN Holzmann 97
79Specification Languages for Reactive Systems
- Specification languages for verification
- Milner 80 CCS
- Chandy and Misra 88 Unity
- Lamport 94 Temporal Logic of Actions (TLA)
- Specification languages for model checking
- Holzmann 98 Promela
- McMillan 93 SMV
- Alur and Henzinger 96, 99 Reactive Modules
80Action Language TLA Connection Lamport
TOPLAS94
- Similarities
- Transition relation is defined using predicates
on current (unprimed) and next state (primed)
variables - Each predicate is defined using
- integer arithmetic, boolean logic, etc.
- Differences In Action Language
- Temporal operators are not used in defining the
transition relation - Dual language approach temporal properties (in
CTL) are redundant, they are used to check
correctness - Synchronous and asynchronous composition
operators are not equivalent to logical operators
81Constraint-Based VerificationNot a New Idea
- Cooper 71 Used a decision procedure for
Presburger arithmetic to verify sequential
programs represented in a block form - Cousot and Halbwachs 78 Used real arithmetic
constraints to discover invariants of sequential
programs
82Constraint-Based Verification
- Halbwachs 93 Constraint based delay analysis in
synchronous programs - Halbwachs et al. 94 Verification of linear
hybrid systems using constraint representations - Alur et al. 96 HyTech, a model checker for
hybrid systems
83Constraint-Based Verification
- Boigelot and Wolper 94 Verification with
periodic sets - Boigelot et al. Meta-transitions
- Delzanno and Podelski 99 Built a model checker
using constraint logic programming framework - Boudet Comon, Wolper and Boigelot 00
Translating linear arithmetic constraints to
automata - Kukula et al. 98 Comparison of automata and
constraint-based verification - no clear winner
84Automata-Based Representations for Arithmetic
Constraints
- Klarlund et al. MONA, an automata manipulation
tool for verification - Boudet Comon Translating linear arithmetic
constraints to automata - Wolper and Boigelot 00 verification using
automata as a symbolic representation - Kukula et al. 98 application of automata based
verification to hardware verification
85Combining Different Symbolic Representations
- Chan et al. CAV97
- both linear and non-linear constraints are mapped
to BDDs - Only data-memoryless and data-invariant
transitions are supported - Bharadwaj and Sims TACAS00
- Combines automata based representations (for
linear arithmetic constraints) with BDDs - Specialized for inductive invariant checking
- Bensalem et al. 00 Symbolic Analysis Laboratory
- Designed a specification language that allows
integration of different verification tools
86Current Work New Symbolic Representations
- Integrating shape analysis to Composite Symbolic
Library - Sagiv et al. Shape analysis Used for verifying
linked list implementations - Analyze monitor specifications with linked lists
- Synthesizing concurrent data structures
- Integrating automata-based constraint
representations to Composite Symbolic Library
Bartzis, Bultan
87Current/Future Work To Abstract or not to
Abstract
- Abstraction techniques
- Restricting variable domains to finite sets
- Predicate abstraction Graf, Saidi 97, Saidi 00
- Hybrid abstractionconstraint based verification
Fu,Bultan,Su - When should we use abstraction and when should we
use constraint-based techniques?
88Concluding Thought
- The fates of specification languages and
automated verification techniques are tied to
each other - One will not succeed without the other
- Goal Developing verifiable specification
languages