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Volume 44, Issue 1, January 2011, Pages 12496-12502
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A Semantic-Preserving Transformation from the Compositional Interchange Format to UPPAAL

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Abstract

The Compositional Interchange Format (CIF), is a modeling formalism for hybrid systems, that aims to establishing interoperability of a wide range of tools by means of model transformations to and from CIF. UPPAAL is a very successful tool for the specification and analysis of timed systems.

It is interesting, both from a theoretical and a practical perspective, to be able to translate CIF models to UPPAAL models, since this makes it possible to model check properties of timed CIF models. This requires a semantic preserving transformation, which ensures that properties validated in UPPAAL models also hold for their CIF counterparts. In addition, by providing such a translation we are, at the same time, providing translations for a wider set of languages that can be transformed to CIF.

This paper presents a semantic-preserving transformation from a subset of CIF models to UPPAAL. The transformation described in this work constitutes the cornerstone for transformations of a broader subset of CIF.

Keywords

Automata
formal languages
specification
verification
transformations
hybrid systems
timed systems

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This work was partially done as part of the European Community's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) project MULTIFORM.

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