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Model Checking of Stream Processing Pipelines

Authors Alexis Bédard, Sylvain Hallé

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  • Theory of computation → Streaming models
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  • stream processing
  • model checking

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Event stream processing (ESP) is the application of a computation to a set of input sequences of arbitrary data objects, called "events", in order to produce other sequences of data objects. In recent years, a large number of ESP systems have been developed; however, none of them is easily amenable to a formal verification of properties on their execution. In this paper, we show how stream processing pipelines built with an existing ESP library called BeepBeep 3 can be exported as a Kripke structure for the NuXmv model checker. This makes it possible to formally verify properties on these pipelines, and opens the way to the use of such pipelines directly within a model checker as an extension of its specification language.

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Alexis Bédard and Sylvain Hallé. Model Checking of Stream Processing Pipelines. In 28th International Symposium on Temporal Representation and Reasoning (TIME 2021). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 206, pp. 5:1-5:17, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2021) https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.TIME.2021.5

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Alexis Bédard
  • Laboratoire d'informatique formelle, Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, Saguenay, Canada
Sylvain Hallé
  • Laboratoire d'informatique formelle, Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, Saguenay, Canada

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Canada Research Chair on Software Specification, Testing and Verification

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The open access publication of this article was supported by the Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria.

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