Weaving true-concurrent aspects using constraint solvers
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External organisations
- University of St Andrews
- University of Birmingham
Abstract
Large system models usually consist of several simpler models that can be understood more easily. Making changes to the behaviour of a component will likely affect several models and could introduce accidental errors. Aspects address this by modelling new functionality required in several places as an advice, which can be integrated with the original base models by specifying a pointcut. Before checking that the overall outcome is correct, we need to weave the cross-cutting advice into the base models, and obtain new augmented models. Although considerable research has been done to weave models, many such approaches are not fully automated. This paper looks at aspect weaving of scenario-based models, where aspects are given a true-concurrent semantics based on event structures. Our contribution is a novel formal automated technique for weaving aspects using the Z3-SMT solver. We compare the performance of Alloy and Z3 to justify our choice.
Details
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | 16th International Conference on Application of Concurrency to System Design 2016 |
Publication status | Published - 6 Feb 2017 |
Event | 16th International Conference on Application of Concurrency to System Design (ACSD 2016) - Torun, Poland Duration: 19 Jun 2016 → 24 Jun 2016 |
Publication series
Name | International Conference on Application of Concurrency to System Design. Proceedings |
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ISSN (Print) | 1550-4808 |
Conference
Conference | 16th International Conference on Application of Concurrency to System Design (ACSD 2016) |
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Country | Poland |
City | Torun |
Period | 19/06/16 → 24/06/16 |