This paper concerns the application of formal methods to biological systems, modeled specifically in BioAmbients [34], a variant of the Mobile Ambients [4] calculus. Following the semantic-based approach of abstract interpretation, we define a new static analysis that computes an abstract transition system. Our analysis has two main advantages with respect to the analyses appearing in literature: (i) it is able to address temporal properties which are more general than invariant properties; (ii) it supports, by means of a particular labeling discipline, the validation of systems where several copies of an ambient may appear.
An Analysis for Proving Temporal Properties of Biological Systems
GORI, ROBERTA;LEVI, FRANCESCA
2006-01-01
Abstract
This paper concerns the application of formal methods to biological systems, modeled specifically in BioAmbients [34], a variant of the Mobile Ambients [4] calculus. Following the semantic-based approach of abstract interpretation, we define a new static analysis that computes an abstract transition system. Our analysis has two main advantages with respect to the analyses appearing in literature: (i) it is able to address temporal properties which are more general than invariant properties; (ii) it supports, by means of a particular labeling discipline, the validation of systems where several copies of an ambient may appear.File in questo prodotto:
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