A Platform for High Performance Statistical Model Checking – PLASMA

Cyrille Jegourel (1) , Axel Legay (1) , Sean Sedwards (1)

1 ESTASYS - Efficient STAtistical methods in SYstems of systems

Statistical model checking offers the potential to decide and quantify dynamical properties of models with intractably large state space, opening up the possibility to verify the performance of complex real-world systems. Rare properties and long simulations pose a challenge to this approach, so here we present a fast and compact statistical model checking platform, PLASMA, that incorporates an efficient simulation engine and uses importance sampling to reduce the number and length of simulations when properties are rare. For increased flexibility and ef-ficiency PLASMA compiles both model and property into bytecode that is executed on an in-built memory-efficient virtual machine.

Domaines: Informatique [cs]; Sciences de l'ingénieur [physics]; Mathématiques [math]

Cyrille Jegourel, Axel Legay, Sean Sedwards. A Platform for High Performance Statistical Model Checking – PLASMA. TACAS 2012 - 18th International Conference Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems, Mar 2012, Tallinn, Estonia. pp.498 - 503, ⟨10.1007/978-3-642-28756-5_37⟩. ⟨hal-01087824⟩