Validating the Hybrid ERTMS/ETCS level 3 concept with electrum

This paper reports on the development of a formal model for the Hybrid ERTMS/ETCS Level 3 concept in Electrum, a lightweight formal specification language that extends Alloy with mutable relations and temporal logic operators. We show how Electrum and its Analyzer can be used to perform scenario exp...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cunha, Alcino (author)
Other Authors: Macedo, Nuno (author)
Format: article
Language:eng
Published: 2020
Subjects:
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1822/68516
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:repositorium.sdum.uminho.pt:1822/68516
Description
Summary:This paper reports on the development of a formal model for the Hybrid ERTMS/ETCS Level 3 concept in Electrum, a lightweight formal specification language that extends Alloy with mutable relations and temporal logic operators. We show how Electrum and its Analyzer can be used to perform scenario exploration to validate this model, namely to check that all the operational scenarios described in the reference document are admissible, and to reason about expected safety properties, which can be easily specified and model checked for arbitrary track configurations. We also show how the Analyzer can be used to depict scenarios (and counter-examples) in a graphical notation that is logic-agnostic, making them understandable by stakeholders without expertise in formal specification.