NDLI: From software verification to ‘everyware’ verification

Content Provider	Springer Nature Link
Author	Kwiatkowska, Marta
Copyright Year	2013
Abstract	Ubiquitous computing is a vision of computing in which the computer disappears from view and becomes embedded in our environment, in the equipment we use, in our clothes, and even in our body. Everyday objects—called ‘everyware’ by Adam Greenfield—are now endowed with sensing, controlled by software, and often wirelessly connected and Internet-enabled. Our increasing dependence on ubiquitous computing creates an urgent need for modelling and verification technologies to support the design process, and hence improve the reliability and reduce production costs. At the same time, the challenges posed by ubiquitous computing are unique, deriving from the need to consider coordination of communities of ‘everyware’ and control physical processes such as drug delivery.Model-based design and verification techniques have pro-ved useful in supporting the design process by detecting and correcting flaws in a number of ubiquitous computing applications, but are limited by poor scalability, efficiency and range of scenarios that can be handled. In this paper we describe the objectives and initial progress of the research aimed at extending the capabilities of quantitative, probabilistic verification to challenging ubiquitous computing scenarios. The focus is on a advancing quantitative verification in new and previously unexplored directions, including game-based techniques, incorporation of continuous dynamics in addition to stochasticity, and online approaches. The research involves investigating the fundamentals of quantitative verification, development of algorithms and prototype implementations, and experimenting with case studies.
Starting Page	295
Ending Page	310
Page Count	16
File Format	PDF
ISSN	18652034
Journal	Informatik - Forschung und Entwicklung
Volume Number	28
Issue Number	4
e-ISSN	18652042
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Publisher Date	2013-09-07
Publisher Place	Berlin, Heidelberg
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Subject Keyword	Ubiquitous computing Probabilistic, real-time and hybrid models Quantitative specifications Quantitative/Probabilistic model checking Runtime verification Computer Science Computer Hardware Computer Systems Organization and Communication Networks Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems Data Structures, Cryptology and Information Theory Theory of Computation
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Computer Science

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