Integrating Model Checking and Deduction for Rebeca

Abstract

Rebeca is an actor-based language for modeling concurrent and distributed systems. Its Java-like syntax makes it easy-to-use for practitioners and its formal foundation is a basis to make different formal verification approaches applicable. Compositional verification and abstraction techniques are used in formal verification of Rebeca models to overcome state explosion problems. The main contribution of this paper is to show how model checking and deduction are integrated for verifying certain properties of these models. Deduction is used to prove that abstraction techniques preserve a set of behavioral specifications in temporal logic and is also used in applying the compositional