Libdmc
Developer(s) | Alexandre Hamez |
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Operating system | Posix Systems |
Type | Model checking |
Libdmc [1][2] is a library designed at the LIP6 [3] laboratory. Its goal is to ease the distribution of existing model checkers. It has also been designed to provide the most generic interfaces, without sacrificing performance, thanks to the C++ language.
Model checking offers a way to automatically prove that a modeled system behavior is correct by verifying properties. However, it suffers from the so-called state space explosion problem, caused by an intensive use of memory. Many solutions have been proposed to overcome this problem (e.g. symbolic representations with decisions diagrams - like BDD) but these methods can rapidly lead to an unacceptable time consumption.
Distributed model checking is a way to overcome both memory and time consumptions by using aggregated resources of a dedicated cluster. However, re-writing an entire model checker is a difficult task, so the approach of libdmc is to give a framework in order to construct a model checker.
References
- ^ Hamez, Alexandre; Kordon, Fabrice; Thierry-Mieg, Yann (2007). "IibDMC: a Library to Operate Efficient Distributed Model Checking". 2007 IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium: 1–8. doi:10.1109/IPDPS.2007.370647. ISBN 978-1-4244-0909-9.
- ^ Hamez, Alexandre; Kordon, Fabrice; Thierry-Mieg, Yann; Legond-Aubry, Fabrice (2007). "dmcG: A Distributed Symbolic Model Checker Based on GreatSPN". Lecture Notes in Computer Science. 4546: 495–504. doi:10.1007/978-3-540-73094-1_29. ISBN 978-3-540-73093-4.
- ^ Accueil LIP6