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Assisted Generation of Frame Conditions for Formal Models

Philipp Niemann; Frank Hilken; Martin Gogolla; Robert Wille
In: Proceedings of the 2015 Design, Automation & Test in Europe Conference & Exhibition (DATE). Design, Automation & Test in Europe (DATE-15), March 9-13, Grenoble, France, ISBN 978-3-9815370-4-8, 2015.

Abstract

Modeling languages such as UML or SysML allow for the validation and verification of the structure and the behavior of designs even in the absence of a specific implementation. However, formal models inherit a severe drawback: Most of them hardly provide a comprehensive and determinate description of transitions from one system state to another. This problem can be addressed by additionally specifying so-called frame conditions. However, only naive “workarounds” based on trivial heuristics or completely relying on a manual creation have been proposed for their generation thus far. In this work, we aim for a solution which neither leaves the burden of generating frame conditions entirely on the designer (avoiding the introduction of another time-consuming and expensive design step) nor is completely automatic (which, due to ambiguities, is not possible anyway). For this purpose, a systematic design methodology for the assisted generation of frame conditions is proposed.