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Autori principali: Sun, Minghui, Bakirtzis, Georgios, Jafarzadeh, Hassan, Fleming, Cody
Natura: Preprint
Pubblicazione: 2019
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Accesso online:https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.02070
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author Sun, Minghui
Bakirtzis, Georgios
Jafarzadeh, Hassan
Fleming, Cody
author_facet Sun, Minghui
Bakirtzis, Georgios
Jafarzadeh, Hassan
Fleming, Cody
contents In systems engineering, accurately decomposing requirements is crucial for creating well-defined and manageable system components, particularly in safety-critical domains. Despite the critical need, rigorous, top-down methodologies for effectively breaking down complex requirements into precise, actionable sub-requirements are scarce, especially compared to the wealth of bottom-up verification techniques. Addressing this gap, we introduce a formal decomposition for contract-based design that guarantees the correctness of decomposed requirements if specific conditions are met. Our (semi-)automated methodology augments contract-based design with reachability analysis and constraint programming to systematically identify, verify, and validate sub-requirements representable by continuous bounded sets -- continuous relations between real-valued inputs and outputs. We demonstrate the efficacy and practicality of a correct-by-construction approach through a comprehensive case study on a cruise control system, highlighting how our methodology improves the interpretability, tractability, and verifiability of system requirements.
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spellingShingle Correct-by-construction requirement decomposition
Sun, Minghui
Bakirtzis, Georgios
Jafarzadeh, Hassan
Fleming, Cody
Systems and Control
In systems engineering, accurately decomposing requirements is crucial for creating well-defined and manageable system components, particularly in safety-critical domains. Despite the critical need, rigorous, top-down methodologies for effectively breaking down complex requirements into precise, actionable sub-requirements are scarce, especially compared to the wealth of bottom-up verification techniques. Addressing this gap, we introduce a formal decomposition for contract-based design that guarantees the correctness of decomposed requirements if specific conditions are met. Our (semi-)automated methodology augments contract-based design with reachability analysis and constraint programming to systematically identify, verify, and validate sub-requirements representable by continuous bounded sets -- continuous relations between real-valued inputs and outputs. We demonstrate the efficacy and practicality of a correct-by-construction approach through a comprehensive case study on a cruise control system, highlighting how our methodology improves the interpretability, tractability, and verifiability of system requirements.
title Correct-by-construction requirement decomposition
topic Systems and Control
url https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.02070