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Formal modelling for Ada implementations: Tasking Event-B

Edmunds, Andrew and Rezazadeh, Abdolbaghi and Butler, Michael (2012) Formal modelling for Ada implementations: Tasking Event-B. In: Ada-Europe 2012: 17th International Conference on Reliable Software Technologies, Stockholm. (In Press)

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Official URL: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/335400/

Abstract

This paper describes a formal modelling approach, where Ada code is automatically generated from the modelling artefacts. We introduce an implementation-level specification, Tasking Event-B, which is an extension to Event-B. Event-B is a formal method, that can be used to model safety-, and business-critical systems. The work may be of interest to a section of the Ada community who are interested in applying formal modelling techniques in their development process, and automatically generating Ada code from the model. We describe a streamlined process, where the abstract modelling artefacts map easily to Ada language constructs. Initial modelling takes place at a high level of abstraction. We then use refinement, decomposition, and finally implementation-level annotations, to generate Ada code. We provide a brief introduction to Event-B, before illustrating the new approach using small examples taken from a larger case study.

Item Type:Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Subjects:ADVANCE Project
Tool developments > Code generation
Event-B
Tool developments
ID Code:375
Deposited By: Dr Andrew Edmunds
Deposited On:15 Mar 2012 09:45
Last Modified:11 Sep 2012 18:39

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