Abstract
Complex systems require the use of different models that are linked with each other. Developers are naturally interested to show that their systems work. Domain practitioners, who work with domain-specific models, want to verify that their created models perform as desired. Correctness statements about the behavior of models are only possible if they have a clear semantics. Support is required for creating the semantics and also for checking properties of the model.
With the Rmt approach, we make operational semantics usable for the domain-specific modeling languages (DSML) that are understandable to domain experts. High-level Petri nets as a target language of our transformational approach can be analyzed by the MoMoC CTL model checking tool. In this contribution MoMoC is extended and integrated with the Rmt approach so that the results of verification based on the defined operational semantics can be applied to DSML.
The presented approach does not work equally well for all languages. However, it is well suited for languages with discrete states that can be uniquely named. Provided that they map well to Petri nets, questions about (reachable) states of multiple linked domain-specific models can be answered.
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The first paragraph of this section is adopted from our previous contribution [11].
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Haustermann, M., Mosteller, D., Moldt, D. (2021). Model Checking of Synchronized Domain-Specific Multi-formalism Models Using High-Level Petri Nets. In: Buchs, D., Carmona, J. (eds) Application and Theory of Petri Nets and Concurrency. PETRI NETS 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12734. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-76983-3_12
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