Model Checking Support for the ASM High-Level Language

  • Authors:
  • Giuseppe Del Castillo;Kirsten Winter

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • TACAS '00 Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Tools and Algorithms for Construction and Analysis of Systems: Held as Part of the European Joint Conferences on the Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2000
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

Gurevich's Abstract State Machines (ASM) constitute a high-level specification language for a wide range of applications. The existing tool support for ASM-currently including type-checking, simulation and debugging-should be extended to support computer-aided verification, in particular by model checking. In this paper we introduce an interface from our existing tool environment to the model checker SMV, based on a transformation which maps a large subset of ASM into the SMV language. Through a case study we show how the proposed approach can ease the validation process.