Paper Details

Lazy Exploration and Checking of CSP Models with CSPsim

Authors: Brooke, Philip J, Paige, Richard F.

Abstract:

We have recently constructed a model, and carried out an analysis, of a concurrent extension to an object-oriented language at a level of abstraction above threads. The model was constructed in CSP. We subsequently found that existing CSP tools were unsuitable for reasoning about and analysing this model, so it became necessary to create a new tool to handle CSP models: CSPsim. We describe this tool, its capabilities and algorithms, and compare it with the related tools, FDR2 and ProBE. We illustrate CSPsim's usage with examples from the model. The tool's on-the-fly construction of successor states is important for exhaustive and non-exhaustive state exploration. Thus we found CSPsim to be particularly useful for parallel compositions of components with infinite states that reduce to finite-state systems.

Proceedings:

Communicating Process Architectures 2007, Alistair A. McEwan, Steve Schneider, Wilson Ifill, Peter H. Welch, 2007, pp 33 - 50 published by IOS Press, Amsterdam

This record in other formats:

Web page: BibTEX, Refer
Plain text: BibTEX, Refer

If you have any comments on this database, including inaccuracies, requests to remove or add information, or suggestions for improvement, the WoTUG web team are happy to hear of them. We will do our best to resolve problems to everyone's satisfaction.

Copyright for the papers presented in this database normally resides with the authors; please contact them directly for more information. Addresses are normally presented in the full paper.