Constraint Logic Programming for Reasoning About Discrete Event Processes

Abstract The purpose of this paper is to show that constraint logic programming is a useful computational logic for modeling, simulating, and verifying real-time discrete event processes. The designer's knowledge about discrete event processes can be represented by a constraint logic program in a fashion that stays close to the mathematical definition of the processes, and can be used to semiautomate verification of possibly infinite-state systems. The constraint language CPL( R ) is used to illustrate verification techniques.

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