Formal methods @ runtime

  • Authors:
  • Radu Calinescu;Shinji Kikuchi

  • Affiliations:
  • Aston University, Aston Triangle, Birmingham, UK;Fujitsu Laboratories Limited, Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan

  • Venue:
  • FOCS'10 Proceedings of the 16th Monterey conference on Foundations of computer software: modeling, development, and verification of adaptive systems
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Heuristics, simulation, artificial intelligence techniques and combinations thereof have all been employed in the attempt to make computer systems adaptive, context-aware, reconfigurable and self-managing. This paper complements such efforts by exploring the possibility to achieve runtime adaptiveness using mathematically-based techniques from the area of formal methods. It is argued that formal methods @ runtime represents a feasible approach, and promising preliminary results are summarised to support this viewpoint. The survey of existing approaches to employing formal methods at runtime is accompanied by a discussion of their challenges and of the future research required to overcome them.