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In this paper, we investigate context aware location-based mobile systems. In particular, we are interested how their behaviour, including fault tolerant aspects, could be captured using a formal semantics, which would then be suitable for analysis and verification. We propose a new formalism and middleware, called Cama, which provides a rich environment to test our approach. The approach itself aims at giving Cama a formal concurrency semantics in terms of a suitable process algebra, and then applying efficient model checking techniques to the resulting process expressions in a way which alleviates the state space explosion. The model checking technique adopted in our work is partial order model checking based on Petri net unfoldings, and we use a semantics preserving translation from the process terms used in the modelling of Cama to a suitable class of high-level Petri nets.
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Iliasov, A., Khomenko, V., Koutny, M., Romanovsky, A. (2006). On Specification and Verification of Location-Based Fault Tolerant Mobile Systems. In: Butler, M., Jones, C.B., Romanovsky, A., Troubitsyna, E. (eds) Rigorous Development of Complex Fault-Tolerant Systems. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4157. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11916246_9
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