基于时序描述逻辑的UML顺序图形式化研究

在统一建模语言（UML）规范中顺序图的语义是以自然语言的形式描述的,是一种半形式化的语言,不能对系统的交互行为进行形式化分析及论证.针对UML顺序图缺乏精确的形式化描述问题,根据顺序图的时序特征,提出了增加交互操作符的UML顺序图的六元组形式化方法.对描述逻辑进行时序扩展,得到可表示动态和时序语义的形式化规范——时序描述逻辑.应用时序描述逻辑的时态算子得到时序描述逻辑语义形式的UML顺序图.用UML顺序图描述完整的C语言执行过程,将其形式化描述,实验结果表明,这种方法是可行的.     

一种基于活性顺序图的运行时验证研究

运行时验证是一种轻量级的形式化验证方法,使用可视化的需求规约描述语言建模需求规约场景是运行时验证领域的研究热点。针对目前基于活性顺序图的运行时验证方法中容易产生冗余性质、二值语义的验证结果不准确、基于Maude工具引擎的重写逻辑验证算法效率较低等问题,提出一种基于活性顺序图的运行时验证的改进方法,以支持现有的运行时验证技术。实验表明,改进方法验证结果准确,且验证过程开销较小。     

一种面向流体仿真的场景处理方法

在流体仿真中,场景处理是将场景模型转化为可计算流体边界的重要途径.针对传统算法效率低的问题,提出一种面向流体仿真的场景处理方法.通过挖掘流体仿真计算的规律,定义面向流体计算特征的场景语义;利用该语义建立最优场景图来组织仿真场景,并对场景进行高效的处理.将文中方法应用到火灾仿真和流体动画中的实验结果表明,该方法能够提高场景处理效率,满足流体仿真计算的需求.     

UML2.0顺序图的时序描述逻辑语义

针对UML2.0顺序图用于对象间交互行为建模时存在动态语义缺乏精确形式化描述的问题,提出一种基于时序描述逻辑的UML2.0顺序图形式化方法。对描述逻辑进行时序扩展,得到可表示动态和时序语义的形式化规范——时序描述逻辑,根据UML2.0新增的交互操作符将UML2.0顺序图分成一个或多个最大顺序片段,通过形式化最大顺序片段和交互操作符得到UML2.0顺序图的时序描述逻辑语义。实例检验结果表明,该方法具有可行性。     

从时序图描述推导目标描述的方法研究

面向场景的需求建模方法自面世以来,在需求分析过程中被越来越广泛的使用.但是面向场景的需求分析方法在保证需求的一致性和完整性上存在着很大的困难.面向目标的需求分析方法,以目标需求为研究内容,目前已经成功的解决了需求完整性和一致性的判定问题.本文希望将场景描述转化为目标描述,然后通过保证目标的完整性和一致性来保证场景描述的完整性和一致性.因此,本文从场景的时序图描述出发,通过时序图的语义描述提出了一种时序图向操作目标集合的推导方法,并提供了判定推导等价的判定定理.     

基于模糊测度的模糊分支时态逻辑模型检测

针对具有模糊性和不确定性的复杂系统的验证问题,提出一种基于模糊测度的模糊分支时态逻辑模型检测算法。首先,在模糊决策过程模型的基础上引入模糊分支时态逻辑的语法和语义。然后,给出模糊分支时态逻辑模型检测算法,该算法将模型检测问题转化为矩阵运算,具有计算方式简洁、复杂度较低的优点。最后,通过医疗专家系统的实例说明了该模型检测算法的有效性。     

基于标记Büchi自动机的时态描述逻辑ALC-LTL模型检测

时态描述逻辑将描述逻辑的刻画能力引入到命题时态逻辑中,适合于在语义Web环境下对相关系统的时态性质进行刻画.为了对这些时态性质进行高效的验证,在ALC-LTL的基础上研究了时态描述逻辑的模型检测问题.一方面,使用时态描述逻辑ALC-LTL公式来表示待验证的时态规范;另一方面,在对系统建模时借助描述逻辑ALC对领域知识进行刻画.针对上述扩展后得到的模型检测问题,提出了基于自动机的ALC-LTL模型检测算法.模型检测算法由3个阶段组成:首先将时态规范的否定形式和系统模型分别构造成标记büchi自动机;接下来构造这两个自动机的乘积自动机,并将关于ALC的推理机制融入到乘积自动机的构造过程中;最后对该乘积自动机进行判空检测.与LTL模型检测相比,时态描述逻辑ALC-LTL的模型检测引入了描述逻辑的刻画和推理机制,可以在语义Web环境下对语义Web服务等复杂系统的时态性质进行刻画和验证.     

模态顺序图uMSD 的形式语义

UML 2.0顺序图已广泛应用于业界,但其语义模糊,以至于不能有效地加以使用.模态顺序图(modal sequence diagram,简称MSD)是对UML 2.0顺序图的模态扩展,区分了强制场景(用universal MSD表示,简称uMSD)和可能场景(用existential MSD表示,简称eMSD).其中,uMSD具有较强的表达能力,能够用于表示并发系统的时态性质,故主要工作围绕uMSD展开.为了使uMSD用于形式化分析、验证和监控,给出基于自动机的uMSD语义解释,并给出各种操作符的算法,用性质规约模式度量uMSD的表达能力.最后进行了实例研究,并讨论了其应用前景.     

基于代数-时态逻辑的象形对象研究

本文首先讨论了国内外有关面向对象方法学、代数规范、时态逻辑的研究现状 ,分析了对象形式化语义研究的不足 .其次 ,分析了几种主要的系统形式化模型和方法 .然后 ,在我们已研究的“计算机甲骨文象形码输入法”的基础上 ,从时态逻辑的角度定义了象形对象及其约束条件 ,定义了面向对象的有色 Petri网 (OOPEN) ,并应用 OOPEN描述了象形对象的层次结构 .最后 ,我们将代数规范与时态逻辑相结合 ,对象形对象的语义基础进行了一些研究 .     

行为时态逻辑TLA定理系统证明及公平性研究

行为时态逻辑TLA(temporal logic of actions)能够在一种语言中同时表达模型程序与逻辑规则,是目前模型检测技术中一个较新的研究方向.为了理解行为时态逻辑与传统时态逻辑之间的理论联系,研究了时态逻辑的语义和定理系统,并根据行为时态逻辑TLA的自身特征指出了TLA中的行为属于时态逻辑T4系统.在此基础上严格的证明了TIA的定理系统及TLA中强公平性蕴涵弱公平性的重要性质,讨论了强公平性与弱公平性等价的条件.最后以实例说明了如何确定动作的强弱公平性,进而建立系统的TLA模型.     

Scenario-based verification of real-time systems using Uppaal

This article proposes two approaches to tool-supported automatic verification of dense real-time systems against scenario-based requirements, where a system is modeled as a network of timed automata (TAs) or as a set of driving live sequence charts (LSCs), and a requirement is specified as a separate monitored LSC chart. We make timed extensions to a kernel subset of the LSC language and define a trace-based semantics. By translating a monitored LSC chart to a behavior-equivalent observer TA and then non-intrusively composing this observer with the original TA-modeled real-time system, the problems of scenario-based verification reduce to computation tree logic (CTL) real-time model checking problems. When the real-time system is modeled as a set of driving LSC charts, we translate these driving charts and the monitored chart into a behavior-equivalent network of TAs by using a “one-TA-per-instance line” approach, and then reduce the problems of scenario-based verification also to CTL real-time model checking problems. We show how we exploit the expressivity of the TA formalism and the CTL query language of the real-time model checker Uppaal to accomplish these tasks. The proposed two approaches are implemented in the Uppaal tool and built as a tool chain, respectively. We carry out a number of experiments with both verification approaches, and the results indicate that these methods are viable, computationally feasible, and the tools are effective.     

Assert and negate revisited: Modal semantics for UML sequence diagrams

Live Sequence Charts (LSC) extend Message Sequence Charts (MSC), mainly by distinguishing possible from necessary behavior. They thus enable the specification of rich multi-modal scenario-based properties, such as mandatory, possible and forbidden scenarios. The sequence diagrams of UML 2.0 enrich those of previous versions of UML by two new operators, assert and negate, for specifying required and forbidden behaviors, which appear to have been inspired by LSC. The UML 2.0 semantics of sequence diagrams, however, being based on pairs of valid and invalid sets of traces, is inadequate, and prevents the new operators from being used effectively. We propose an extension of, and a different semantics for this UML language—Modal Sequence Diagrams (MSD)—based on the universal/existential modal semantics of LSC. In particular, in MSD assert and negate are really modalities, not operators. We define MSD as a UML 2.0 profile, thus paving the way to apply formal verification, synthesis, and scenario-based execution techniques from LSC to the mainstream UML standard. Preliminary version appeared in SCESM '06: Proc. of the 2006 Int. workshop on Scenarios and State Machines, Shanghai, China (May 2006) [15]. This research was supported by the Israel Science Foundation (grant No.287/02-1), and by The John von Neumann Minerva Center for the Development of Reactive Systems at the Weizmann Institute of Science.     

包含协议和语义的构件一致性验证方法

在基于构件的系统设计中,需要对构件的一致性进行验证。构件的一致性包括语义一致性和协议一致性,已有的一致性验证方法仅支持构件的协议一致性验证。而在实际应用中除了要进行构件的协议一致性验证外,还需要进行其语义一致性验证。为此提出了一种包含协议和语义的构件一致性验证方法。所提方法将方法语义与基于场景的需求规约相结合,使用语义扩展接口自动机模型(SIA)来建模构件的语义和协议信息,使用带有语义约束的UML交互概观图来表示基于场景的需求规约。通过对SIA和带语义约束的UML交互概观图的行为的理论分析,进一步形成了一种一致性验证算法,并用实例来说明其过程。该算法不仅能够检验系统中构件的协议一致性,而且能够检验其语义一致性。该算法中的方法语义包括了该方法参数的类型和详细语义信息,更符合实际应用情形。     

Graphical scenarios for specifying temporal properties: an automated approach

Temporal logics are commonly used for reasoning about concurrent systems. Model checkers and other finite-state verification techniques allow for automated checking of system model compliance to given temporal properties. These properties are typically specified as linear-time formulae in temporal logics. Unfortunately, the level of inherent sophistication required by these formalisms too often represents an impediment to move these techniques from “research theory” to “industry practice”. The objective of this work is to facilitate the nontrivial and error prone task of specifying, correctly and without expertise in temporal logic, temporal properties. In order to understand the basis of a simple but expressive formalism for specifying temporal properties we critically analyze commonly used in practice visual notations. Then we present a scenario-based visual language called Property Sequence Chart (PSC) that, in our opinion, fixes the highlighted lacks of these notations by extending a subset of UML 2.0 Interaction Sequence Diagrams. We also provide PSC with both denotational and operational semantics. The operational semantics is obtained via translation into Büchi automata and the translation algorithm is implemented as a plugin of our Charmy tool. Expressiveness of PSC has been validated with respect to well known property specification patterns. Preliminary results appeared in (Autili et al. 2006a).     

Temporal Semantics for Concurrent M M

Concurrent is a programming language based on the notion of concurrent, communicating objects, where each object directly executes a specification given in temporal logic, and communicates with other objects using asynchronous broadcast message-passing. Thus, Concurrent represents a combination of the direct execution of temporal specifications, together with a novel model of concurrent computation. In contrast to the notions of predicates as processes and stream parallelism seen in concurrent logic languages, Concurrent represents a more coarse-grained approach, where an object consists of a set of logical rules and communication is achieved by the evaluation of certain types of predicate. Representing concurrent systems as groups of such objects provides a powerful tool for modelling complex reactive systems. In order to reason about the behaviour of Concurrent systems, we requir a suitable semantics. Being based upon executable temporal logic, objects in isolation have an intuitive semantics. However, the addition of both operational constraints upon the object's execution and global constraints provided by the asynchronous model of concurrency and communication, complicates the overall semantics of networks of objects. It is this, more complex, semantics that we address here, where temporal semantics for varieties of Concurrent are provided.     

基于时序描述逻辑的UML顺序图形式化方法

根据统一建模语言(UML)顺霤图的时霤特征,提出一种基于时霤描述逻辑ALCQIUS的UML顺霤图需式化方法。研究ALCQIUS时霤扩展部分的语法和语义、ALCQIUS断言公式集一致霆定理,给出ALCQIUS断言公式集一致霆推理算法,并证明该推理算法的可判定霆。以公安报警系统为例,说明基于ALCQIUS的UML顺霤图需式化规约和需式化验证具备可霂霆,并且ALCQIUS为UML顺霤图需式化提供了合理的逻辑基础。     

行为时序逻辑与自反线性时序逻辑的关系

为了能够将哲学逻辑中的公理系统运用到行为时序逻辑的研究中。对行为时序逻辑公式的语义进行形式化定义．从语义和语法两方面研究行为时序逻辑公理系统和具有自反性质的线性时序逻辑公理系统之间的联系．提出并证明行为时序逻辑公式转换为自反线性时序逻辑公式的定理。按照集合论和模型论的思想,定义行为时序逻辑中项和行为时序逻辑原子公式的概念。定义Lesilie Lamport所提出的行为时序逻辑公式的语义。证明自反线性时序逻辑公理系统适用于行为时序逻辑公理系统．以此为基础证明行为时序逻辑的简单规则、基本规则和附加规则。     

Operational semantics of Framed Tempura

This paper investigates the operational semantics of temporal logic programs. To this end, a temporal logic programming language called Framed Tempura is employed. The evaluation rules for both the arithmetic and boolean expressions are defined. The semantic equivalence rules for the reduction of a program within a state is formalized. Furthermore, the transition rules within a state and transition rules over an interval between configurations are also specified. Moreover, some examples are given to illustrate how these rules work. Thus, the executable behavior of framed programs can be captured in an operational way. In addition, the consistency between the operational semantics and the minimal model semantics based on model theory is proved in detail.     

UML Statecharts的模型检验方法

统一建模语言UML已广泛应用于软件开发中,验证UML模型是否满足某些关键性质成为一个重要问题.提出了对UML Statecharts进行模型检验的方法.首先用扩展层次自动机结构化地表示UML Statecharts,然后给出其操作语义,通过寻找最大无冲突迁移集可以保证语义的正确性.对于具有无穷运行的系统,该操作语义可以映射到一个Büchi自动机.使用基于自动机理论的模型检验方法来验证UML Statecharts的线性时态逻辑性质,并给出方法验证由Statecharts和协同图建模的复杂多对象系统.