Property-preserving Petri Net process algebra in software engineering

In a component-based approach for system design, one of the challenging problems is the way to prove the correctness of the created components. Usually, the constituent components are supposed to be correct — possessing the desirableproperties and free from undesirable ones. However, the operators may destroythese properties or create new ones, resulting in an undesirable new component. Hence, every created component has to go through a new process of verification, involving a tremendous amount of effort. This book presents a component -based methodology for the creation and verification of design specifications. The methodology is formally presented as an algebra called Property-PreservingPetri Net Process Algebra (PPPA). PPPA includes five classes of operators, and the authors show that every operator of PPPA can preserve a large number of basic system properties. Therefore, if the initial set of primitive componentssatisfies some of these properties, the created components will also “automatically” satisfy them without the need for further verification — thus greatly saving verification efforts. INDICE: Introduction; Fundamentals on PPPA and Related Work; Petri Net Processes and Extension Operators; Composition Operators of PPPA; Property-Preserving Refinements; Property-Preserving Reductions; Place-Merging Operators for Resource Sharing; Application of PPPA to Component-Based Design of Manufacturing Systems; Application of PPPA to Multi-Agent System Design; Application of PPPA to Job-Shop Scheduling Systems; Application of PPPA to Security Policy Design.

• ISBN: 978-981-4324-28-1
• Editorial: World Scientific
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 320
• Fecha Publicación: 14/05/2012
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés