Formal Verification of UML MARTE Specifications Based on a True Concurrency Real Time Model

The profile UML MARTE offers a general modeling framework for designing and analyzing real-time and embedded systems. Temporal aspects are critical criteria that should be taken into account during the design process. So, formal methods may be used to ensure the functional correctness of such systems. For this purpose, this paper defines an operational method for translating UML sequence diagrams annotated with MARTE stereotypes to time Petri nets with action duration specifications. The semantics of these specifications are defined in terms of duration action timed automata. This allows formal verification by means of several model checker tools like UPPAAL.390