Formal modeling and analysis of the HLA component integration standard

  • Authors:
  • Robert J. Allen;David Garlan;James Ivers

  • Affiliations:
  • IBM, Dept. AQPV / 862F 1000 River Road, Essex Junction, VT;School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA;School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA

  • Venue:
  • SIGSOFT '98/FSE-6 Proceedings of the 6th ACM SIGSOFT international symposium on Foundations of software engineering
  • Year:
  • 1998

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Abstract

An increasingly important trend in the engineering of complex systems is the design of component integration standards. Such standards define rules of interaction and shared communication infrastructure that permit composition of systems out of independently-developed parts. A problem with these standards is that it is often difficult to understand exactly what they require and provide, and to analyze them in order to understand their deeper properties. In this paper we use our experience in modeling the High Level Architecture (HLA) for Distributed Simulation to show how one can capture the structured protocol inherent in an integration standard as a formal architectural model that can be analyzed to detect anomalies, race conditions, and deadlocks.