System design modification with actions

Abstract

System designers are expected to use error-detecting and correcting techniques. Although, model checking approaches have been used for verification of errors in large complex systems, they can only detect the error. the task of correcting the system design (called model update) is completely left to the system designer. Recent works on model update can suggest changes in the system model which do not consider domain contingencies and constraints. In this paper, we present a model update approach that can be used to automatically suggest modifications in a system based on the actions that are behind state transitions and a set of domain constraints. We claim that with this approach we can develop more realistic system error-correcting tools. © 2010 Springer-Verlag.