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We propose an approach on model checking information flow for imperative language with procedures. We characterize our model with pushdown system, which has a stack of unbounded length that naturally models the execution of procedural…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2010-12-15 Cong Sun , Liyong Tang , Zhong Chen

Model checking has found a role in the engineering of reactive systems. However, model checkers are still strongly limited by the size of the system description they can check. Here we present a technique in which a system is simplified…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Glenn Bruns

This paper presents the first model-checking algorithm for an expressive modal mu-calculus over timed automata, $L^{\mathit{rel}, \mathit{af}}_{\nu,\mu}$, and reports performance results for an implementation. This mu-calculus contains…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2014-08-29 Peter Fontana , Rance Cleaveland

Software model checking constitutes an undecidable problem and, as such, even an ideal tool will in some cases fail to give a conclusive answer. In practice, software model checkers fail often and usually do not provide any information on…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-08-21 Rodrigo Castaño , Victor Braberman , Diego Garbervetsky , Sebastian Uchitel

Business analysts and domain experts are often sketching the behaviors of a software system using high-level models that are technology- and platform-independent. The developers will refine and enrich these high-level models with technical…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2014-04-04 Faiz UL Muram , Huy Tran , Uwe Zdun

N-PAT is a new model-checking tool that supports the verification of nested-models, i.e. models whose behaviour depends on the results of verification tasks. In this paper, we describe its operation and discuss mechanisms that are tailored…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2020-05-13 Hadrien Bride , Cheng-Hao Cai , Jin Song Dong , Rajeev Gore , Zhé Hóu , Brendan Mahony , Jim McCarthy

Development of quality assured software-intensive systems, such as automotive embedded systems, is an increasing challenge as the complexity of these systems significantly increases. EAST-ADL is an architecture description language…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-03-18 Eun-Young Kang

In order to create user-centric and personalized privacy management tools, the underlying models must account for individual users' privacy expectations, preferences, and their ability to control their information sharing activities.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-06-23 A K M Nuhil Mehdy , Hoda Mehrpouyan

Model checking of temporal logics in a well established technique to verify and validate properties of multi-agent systems (MAS). However, practical model checking requires input models of manageable size. In this paper, we extend the model…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Yan Kim , Wojciech Jamroga , Wojciech Penczek , Laure Petrucci

This paper describes a series of model-checking experiments to verify optimistic replication algorithms based on Operational Transformation (OT) approach used for supporting collaborative edition. We formally define, using tool UPPAAL, the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2009-04-20 Hanifa Boucheneb , Abdessamad Imine

Electronic voting systems have significant advantages in comparison with physical voting systems. One of the main challenges in e-voting systems is to secure the voting process: namely, to certify that the computed results are consistent…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Tamir Tassa , Lihi Dery , Arthur Zamarin

Model checking and testing are two areas with a similar goal: to verify that a system satisfies a property. They start with different hypothesis on the systems and develop many techniques with different notions of approximation, when an…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-04-19 M. C. Gaudel , R. Lassaigne , F. Magniez , M. de Rougemont

The Pret a Voter cryptographic voting system was designed to be flexible and to offer voters a familiar and easy voting experience. In this paper we present a case study of our efforts to adapt Pret a Voter to the idiosyncrasies of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-09-22 Chris Culnane , Peter Y. A. Ryan , Steve Schneider , Vanessa Teague

Countries like Estonia, Norway or Australia developed electronic voting systems, which could be used to realize parliamentary elections with the help of personal computers and the Internet. These systems are completely different in their…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-02-10 Christian Meter

The quality and correct functioning of software components embedded in electronic systems are of utmost concern especially for safety and mission-critical systems. Model-based testing and formal verification techniques can be employed to…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-08 Shahbaz Ali , Hailong Sun , Yongwang Zhao

In this paper we investigate the applicability of standard model checking approaches to verifying properties in probabilistic programming. As the operational model for a standard probabilistic program is a potentially infinite parametric…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2016-07-28 Nils Jansen , Christian Dehnert , Benjamin Lucien Kaminski , Joost-Pieter Katoen , Lukas Westhofen

Formal verification of complex algorithms is challenging. Verifying their implementations goes beyond the state of the art of current automatic verification tools and usually involves intricate mathematical theorems. Certifying algorithms…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-02-01 Eyad Alkassar , Sascha Böhme , Kurt Mehlhorn , Christine Rizkallah

Testing has become an indispensable activity of software development, yet writing good and relevant tests remains a quite challenging task. One well-known problem is that it often is impossible or unrealistic to test for every outcome, as…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2017-08-18 Dimitri Racordon , Didier Buchs

Languages based on the theory of timed automata are a well established approach for modelling and analysing real-time systems, with many applications both in industrial and academic context. Model checking for timed automata has been…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-12-04 Hossein Hojjat , Philipp Rümmer , Pavle Subotic , Wang Yi

This paper presents BEval, an extension of Atelier B to improve automation in the verification activities in the B method or Event-B. It combines a tool for managing and verifying software projects (Atelier B) and a model checker/animator…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2014-01-07 Valério Medeiros , David Déharbe