Towards a More Intuitive Specification and Automatic Verification of System Properties with FBT: A Tool for Translating Interval Formulas into Büchi Automata

Miguel J. Hornos

2004

Abstract

This paper presents the FBT (FIL to Büchi automaton Translator) tool which automatically translates any formula from FIL (Future Interval Logic) into its semantically equivalent Büchi automaton. There are two advantages of using this logic for specifying and verifying system properties instead of other more traditional and extended temporal logics, such as LTL (Linear Temporal Logic): firstly, it allows a succinct construction of specific temporal contexts, where certain properties must be evaluated, thanks to its key element, the interval; and secondly, it also permits a natural, intuitive, graphical representation. The underlying algorithm of the tool is based on the tableau method and is specially intended for application in on-the-fly model checking. In addition to a description of the design and implementation structure of FBT, we also present some experimental results obtained by our tool, and compare these results with the ones produced by another tool of similar characteristics (i.e. based on an on-the-fly tableau algorithm), but for LTL.

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J. Hornos M. (2004). Towards a More Intuitive Specification and Automatic Verification of System Properties with FBT: A Tool for Translating Interval Formulas into Büchi Automata . In Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Verification and Validation of Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: VVEIS, (ICEIS 2004) ISBN 972-8865-03-1, pages 26-33. DOI: 10.5220/0002680600260033


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@conference{vveis04,
author={Miguel J. Hornos},
title={Towards a More Intuitive Specification and Automatic Verification of System Properties with FBT: A Tool for Translating Interval Formulas into Büchi Automata},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Verification and Validation of Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: VVEIS, (ICEIS 2004)},
year={2004},
pages={26-33},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002680600260033},
isbn={972-8865-03-1},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Verification and Validation of Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: VVEIS, (ICEIS 2004)
TI - Towards a More Intuitive Specification and Automatic Verification of System Properties with FBT: A Tool for Translating Interval Formulas into Büchi Automata
SN - 972-8865-03-1
AU - J. Hornos M.
PY - 2004
SP - 26
EP - 33
DO - 10.5220/0002680600260033