Section: New Software and Platforms

PLASMA Lab

Keywords: Energy - Statistics - Security - Runtime Analysis - Model Checker - Statistical - Model Checking - Aeronautics - Distributed systems

Scientific Description: Statistical model checking (SMC) is a fast emerging technology for industrial scale verification and optimisation problems. SMC only requires an executable semantics and is not constrained by decidability. Therefore we can easily apply it to different modelling languages and logics. We have implemented in PLASMA Lab several advanced SMC algorithms that combine formal methods with statistical tests, which include techniques for rare events estimation and non-deterministic models.

Functional Description: PLASMA Lab is a compact, efficient and flexible platform for statistical model checking of stochastic models. PLASMA Lab includes simulators for PRISM models (Reactives Modules Language-RML) and Biological models. It also provides plugins that interface external simulators in order to support Matlab/Simulink, SytemC and LLVM . PLASMA Lab can be extended with new plugins to support other external simulators, and PLASMA Lab API can be used to embed the tool in other softwares. PLASMA Lab provide fast SMC algorithms, including advanced techniques for rare events simulation and nondeterministic models. These algorithms are designed in a distributed architecture to run large number of simulations on several computers, either on a local area network or grid. PLASMA Lab is implemented in Java with efficient data structures and low memory consumption

News Of The Year: In 2017 we have extended PLASMA Lab with a new simulator plugin that allows to verify LLVM code.

• Participants: Axel Legay, Jean Quilbeuf, Benoît Boyer, Kevin Corre, Louis-Marie Traonouez, Matthieu Simonin and Sean Sedwards

• Contact: Axel Legay

• URL: https://project.inria.fr/plasma-lab/