Abstract
Precisely modeling complex systems like cyber-physical systems is challenging, which often render model-based system verification techniques like model checking infeasible. To overcome this challenge, we propose a method called LAR to automatically ‘verify’ such complex systems through a combination of learning, abstraction and refinement from a set of system log traces. We assume that log traces and sampling frequency are adequate to capture ‘enough’ behaviour of the system. Given a safety property and the concrete system log traces as input, LAR automatically learns and refines system models, and produces two kinds of outputs. One is a counterexample with a bounded probability of being spurious. The other is a probabilistic model based on which the given property is ‘verified’. The model can be viewed as a proof obligation, i.e., the property is verified if the model is correct. It can also be used for subsequent system analysis activities like runtime monitoring or model-based testing. Our method has been implemented as a self-contained software toolkit. The evaluation on multiple benchmark systems as well as a real-world water treatment system shows promising results.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 189-203 |
Number of pages | 15 |
Journal | IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering |
Volume | 47 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 14 Dec 2018 |
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Profiles
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Shengchao Qin
- Department of Computing & Games - Professor of Computer Science
- Centre for Digital Innovation
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