Rebeca: theory, applications, and tools

  • Authors:
  • Marjan Sirjani

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran and IPM School of Computer Science, Tehran, Iran

  • Venue:
  • FMCO'06 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Formal methods for components and objects
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

Rebeca is an actor-based language with a formal foundation for modeling concurrent and distributed systems which is designed in an effort to bridge the gap between formal verification approaches and real applications. Rebeca is supported by a tool-set for model checking Rebeca models. Inherent characteristics of Rebeca are used to introduce compositional verification, abstraction, symmetry and partial order reduction techniques for reducing the state space. Simple message-driven object-based computational model, Java-like syntax, and set of verification tools make Rebeca an interesting and easy-to-learn model for practitioners. This paper is to present theories, applications, and supporting tools of Rebeca in a consistent and distilled form.