Proceedings 2nd Workshop on Models for Formal Analysis of Real Systems

TL;DR

This workshop proceedings focuses on the challenges and lessons learned in modeling real systems using formal methods, emphasizing different modeling approaches and their trade-offs for verification and analysis.

Contribution

It presents full models of real systems and discusses various formal modeling approaches, highlighting their advantages and limitations for realistic system analysis.

Findings

Comparison of formal modeling formalisms

Insights into modeling challenges and solutions

Discussion on accuracy and abstraction in models

Abstract

This volume contains the proceedings of MARS 2017, the second workshop on Models for Formal Analysis of Real Systems, held on April 29, 2017 in Uppala, Sweden, as an affiliated workshop of ETAPS 2017, the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software. The workshop emphasises modelling over verification. It aims at discussing the lessons learned from making formal methods for the verification and analysis of realistic systems. Examples are: (1) Which formalism is chosen, and why? (2) Which abstractions have to be made and why? (3) How are important characteristics of the system modelled? (4) Were there any complications while modelling the system? (5) Which measures were taken to guarantee the accuracy of the model? We invited papers that present full models of real systems, which may lay the basis for future comparison and analysis. An aim of the workshop is to present different modelling approaches and discuss pros and cons for each of them. Alternative formal descriptions of the systems presented at this workshop are encouraged, which should foster the development of improved specification formalisms.