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Title Composing Families of Timed Automata
ID_Doc 79336
Authors Cledou, G; Proença, J; Barbosa, LS
Title Composing Families of Timed Automata
Year 2017
Published
DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-68972-2_4
Abstract Featured Timed Automata (FTA) is a formalism that enables the verification of an entire Software Product Line (SPL), by capturing its behavior in a single model instead of product-by-product. However, it disregards compositional aspects inherent to SPL development. This paper introduces Interface FTA (IFTA), which extends FTA with variable interfaces that restrict the way automata can be composed, and with support for transitions with atomic multiple actions, simplifying the design. To support modular composition, a set of Reo connectors are modelled as IFTA. This separation of concerns increases reusability of functionality across products, and simplifies modelling, maintainability, and extension of SPLs. We show how IFTA can be easily translated into FTA and into networks of Timed Automata supported by UPPAAL. We illustrate this with a case study from the electronic government domain.
Author Keywords Software Product Lines; Featured Timed Automata; Compositionality
Index Keywords Index Keywords
Document Type Other
Open Access Open Access
Source Conference Proceedings Citation Index - Science (CPCI-S)
EID WOS:000452447400004
WoS Category Computer Science, Software Engineering
Research Area Computer Science
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