BIP is a component-based framework for system design that has important industrial applications. BIP is built on three pillars: behavior, interaction, and priority. In this paper, we introduce first-order interaction logic (FOIL) that extends BIP to systems parameterized in the number of components. We show that FOIL captures classical parameterized architectures such as token-passing rings, cliques of identical components communicating with rendezvous or broadcast, and client-server systems. Although the BIP framework includes efficient verification tools for statically-defined systems, none are available for parameterized systems with an unbounded number of components. The parameterized model checking literature contains a wealth of techniques for systems of classical architectures. However, application of these results requires a deep understanding of parameterized model checking techniques and their underlying mathematical models. To overcome these difficulties, we introduce a framework that automatically identifies parameterized model checking techniques applicable to a BIP design. To our knowledge, it is the first framework that allows one to apply prominent parameterized model checking results in a systematic way.
@InProceedings{konnov_et_al:LIPIcs.CONCUR.2016.30, author = {Konnov, Igor and Kotek, Tomer and Wang, Qiang and Veith, Helmut and Bliudze, Simon and Joseph Sifakis}, title = {{Parameterized Systems in BIP: Design and Model Checking}}, booktitle = {27th International Conference on Concurrency Theory (CONCUR 2016)}, pages = {30:1--30:16}, series = {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)}, ISBN = {978-3-95977-017-0}, ISSN = {1868-8969}, year = {2016}, volume = {59}, editor = {Desharnais, Jos\'{e}e and Jagadeesan, Radha}, publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik}, address = {Dagstuhl, Germany}, URL = {https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.CONCUR.2016.30}, URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-61670}, doi = {10.4230/LIPIcs.CONCUR.2016.30}, annote = {Keywords: Rigorous system design, BIP, verification, parameterized model checking} }
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