Understand
We developed StarL as a framework for programming, simulating, and verifying distributed systems that interacts with physical processes.
- StarL framework has (a) a collection of distributed primitives for coordination, such as mutual exclusion, registration and geocast that can be used to build sophisticated applications, (b) theory libraries for verifying StarL applications in the PVS theorem prover, and (c) an execution environment that can be used to deploy the applications on hardware or to execute them in a discrete event simulator.
- The primitives have (i) abstract, nondeterministic specifications in terms of invariants, and assume-guarantee style progress properties, (ii) implementations in Java/Android that always satisfy the invariants and attempt progress using best effort strategies.
- The PVS theories specify the invariant and progress properties of the primitives, and have to be appropriately instantiated and composed with the application's state machine to prove properties about the application.