Section: New Results

Verification of Temporal Properties of Neuronal Archetypes

Participants : Annie Ressouche, Daniel Gaffé.

Keywords: Synchronous Modeling, model-checking, lustre, temporal logic, biologic archetypes

This year, we began a collaboration with with the I3S CNRS laboratory and Jean Dieudonné CNRS laboratory to verify temporal properties of neuronal archetypes. There exist many ways to connect two, three or more neurons together to form different graphs. We call archetypes only the graphs whose properties can be associated to specific classes of biologically relevant structures and behaviors. These archetypes are supposed to be the basis of typical instances of neuronal information processing. To model different representative archetypes and express their temporal properties, we use a synchronous programming language dedicated to reactive systems (Lustre). Then, we generate several back ends to interface different model checkers supporting data types and automatically validate these properties. We compare the respective results. They mainly depend on the underlying abstraction methods used in model checkers.

These results are published in [32]