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Strategic logics for collaborative embedded systems

Specification and verification of collaborative embedded systems using strategic logics

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In embedded systems, there is a clear movement from autonomous systems towards collaborative systems, forming so-called collaborative system groups (CSGs), which collaborate to achieve common goals. Verification of CSGs, however, imposes new challenges, which are difficult to address with traditional verification techniques. In the following, we investigate the use of strategic logics for the analysis of CSGs, by means of a use-case in the domain of smart production systems. Our results show that strategic model checking is useful to investigate certain aspects of CSGs, such as the impact of environmental changes. However, our results also show some limitations of the approach, when it comes to the analysis of implementation-level aspects, such as performance. Thus, we conclude that strategic model checking might complement existing approaches for the analysis of CSGs.

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  1. The tool is available online and can be downloaded at https://github.com/blackbat13/ATLFormulaChecker.

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Acknowledgements

The authors acknowledge the support of the National Centre for Research and Development (NCBR), Poland, under the PolLux Project VoteVerif (POLLUX-IV/1/2016). We also thank Wojtek Jamroga for assistance with the related work section.

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    Damian Kurpiewski

  2. Technische Universität München, Boltzmannstr. 3, 85748, Garching bei München, Germany

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Kurpiewski, D., Marmsoler, D. Strategic logics for collaborative embedded systems. SICS Softw.-Inensiv. Cyber-Phys. Syst. 34, 201–212 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00450-019-00424-7

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