TY  - CHAP
EP  - 242
PB  - Springer
T3  - Lecture Notes in Computer Science
SP  - 223
T2  - Model Checking Software (SPIN'07)
A1  - Lluch-Lafuente, Alberto
AV  - none
ID  - eprints155
TI  - Towards Model Checking Spatial Properties with SPIN
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73370-6_15
SN  - 978-3-540-73369-0
Y1  - 2007///
M1  - 4595
ED  - Bosnacki, Dragan
ED  - Edelkamp, Stefan
N1  - The final publication is available at www.springerlink.com.
N2  - We present an approach for the verification of spatial properties with Spin. We first extend one of Spin?s main property specification mechanisms, i.e., the linear-time temporal logic LTL, with spatial connectives that allow us to restrict the reasoning of the behaviour of a system to some components of the system, only. For instance, one can express whether the system can reach a certain state from which a subset of processes can evolve alone until some property is fulfilled. We give a model checking algorithm for the logic and propose how Spin can be minimally extended to include the algorithm. We also discuss potential improvements to mitigate the exponential complexity introduced by spatial connectives. Finally, we present some experiments that compare our Spin extension with a spatial model checker for the ?-calculus. 
ER  -