Scaling up Uppaal Automatic Verification of Real-Time Systems Using Compositionality and Abstraction

To combat the state-explosion problem in automatic verification, we present a method for scaling up the real-time verification tool UPPAAL by complementing it with methods for abstraction and compositionality. We identify a notion of timed ready simulation which we show is a sound condition for preservation of safety properties between real-time systems, and in addition is a precongruence with respect to parallel composition. Thus, it supports both abstraction and compositionality. We furthermore present a method for automatically testing for the existence of a timed ready simulation between real-time systems using the UPPAAL tool.

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