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MODELS 2020
Fri 16 - Fri 23 October 2020
Wed 21 Oct 2020 15:20 - 15:40 at Room B - B3-Model Analysis and Validation Chair(s): Marsha Chechik

Automatically synthesizing consistent models is a key prerequisite for many testing scenarios in autonomous driving or software tool validation where model-based systems engineering techniques are frequently used to ensure a designated coverage of critical cornercases. From a practical perspective, an inconsistent model is irrelevant as a test case (e.g. false positive), thus each synthetic model needs to simultaneously satisfy various structural and attribute well-formedness constraints. While different logic solvers or dedicated graph solvers have recently been developed, they fail to handle either structural or attribute constraints in a scalable way. In the current paper, we combine a structural graph solver that uses partial models with an SMT-solver to automatically derive models with which simultaneously fulfill structural and attribute constraints while key theoretical properties of model generation like completeness or diversity are still ensured. This necessitates a sophisticated bidirectional interaction between different solvers which carry out consistency checks, decision, unit propagation, concretization steps. We evaluate the scalability and diversity of our approach in the context of three complex case studies.

Wed 21 Oct

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15:00 - 16:15
B3-Model Analysis and ValidationTechnical Track at Room B
Chair(s): Marsha Chechik University of Toronto, Canada
15:00
20m
Full-paper
Semantic Comparisons of Alloy ModelsFT
Technical Track
Jan Oliver Ringert University of Leicester, Syed Waqee Wali University of Leicester, UK
DOI Pre-print
15:20
20m
Full-paper
Automated Generation of Consistent Models with Structural and Attribute ConstraintsFT
Technical Track
Oszkár Semeráth Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Aren Babikian McGill University, Anqi Li , Kristóf Marussy , Daniel Varro McGill University / Budapest University of Technology and Economics
Link to publication
15:40
20m
Full-paper
mel - Model Extractor Language for Extracting Facts from ModelsFT
Technical Track
Robert Hackman , Joanne M. Atlee University of Waterloo, Finn Hacket Computer Science, University of Waterloo, Michael W. Godfrey University of Waterloo, Canada
16:00
15m
Demonstration
Strengthening Validation of Model Behavior through Filmstrip Templates in the tool USEDemo
Technical Track