--- _id: '1846' abstract: - lang: eng text: Modal transition systems (MTS) is a well-studied specification formalism of reactive systems supporting a step-wise refinement methodology. Despite its many advantages, the formalism as well as its currently known extensions are incapable of expressing some practically needed aspects in the refinement process like exclusive, conditional and persistent choices. We introduce a new model called parametric modal transition systems (PMTS) together with a general modal refinement notion that overcomes many of the limitations. We investigate the computational complexity of modal and thorough refinement checking on PMTS and its subclasses and provide a direct encoding of the modal refinement problem into quantified Boolean formulae, allowing us to employ state-of-the-art QBF solvers for modal refinement checking. The experiments we report on show that the feasibility of refinement checking is more influenced by the degree of nondeterminism rather than by the syntactic restrictions on the types of formulae allowed in the description of the PMTS. article_processing_charge: No article_type: original author: - first_name: Nikola full_name: Beneš, Nikola last_name: Beneš - first_name: Jan full_name: Kretinsky, Jan id: 44CEF464-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Kretinsky orcid: 0000-0002-8122-2881 - first_name: Kim full_name: Larsen, Kim last_name: Larsen - first_name: Mikael full_name: Möller, Mikael last_name: Möller - first_name: Salomon full_name: Sickert, Salomon last_name: Sickert - first_name: Jiří full_name: Srba, Jiří last_name: Srba citation: ama: Beneš N, Kretinsky J, Larsen K, Möller M, Sickert S, Srba J. Refinement checking on parametric modal transition systems. Acta Informatica. 2015;52(2-3):269-297. doi:10.1007/s00236-015-0215-4 apa: Beneš, N., Kretinsky, J., Larsen, K., Möller, M., Sickert, S., & Srba, J. (2015). Refinement checking on parametric modal transition systems. Acta Informatica. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00236-015-0215-4 chicago: Beneš, Nikola, Jan Kretinsky, Kim Larsen, Mikael Möller, Salomon Sickert, and Jiří Srba. “Refinement Checking on Parametric Modal Transition Systems.” Acta Informatica. Springer, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00236-015-0215-4. ieee: N. Beneš, J. Kretinsky, K. Larsen, M. Möller, S. Sickert, and J. Srba, “Refinement checking on parametric modal transition systems,” Acta Informatica, vol. 52, no. 2–3. Springer, pp. 269–297, 2015. ista: Beneš N, Kretinsky J, Larsen K, Möller M, Sickert S, Srba J. 2015. Refinement checking on parametric modal transition systems. Acta Informatica. 52(2–3), 269–297. mla: Beneš, Nikola, et al. “Refinement Checking on Parametric Modal Transition Systems.” Acta Informatica, vol. 52, no. 2–3, Springer, 2015, pp. 269–97, doi:10.1007/s00236-015-0215-4. short: N. Beneš, J. Kretinsky, K. Larsen, M. Möller, S. Sickert, J. Srba, Acta Informatica 52 (2015) 269–297. date_created: 2018-12-11T11:54:20Z date_published: 2015-04-01T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2021-01-12T06:53:35Z day: '01' ddc: - '000' department: - _id: ToHe - _id: KrCh doi: 10.1007/s00236-015-0215-4 ec_funded: 1 file: - access_level: open_access checksum: fb4037ddc4fc05f33080dd3547ede350 content_type: application/pdf creator: dernst date_created: 2020-05-15T08:57:44Z date_updated: 2020-07-14T12:45:19Z file_id: '7854' file_name: 2015_ActaInfo_Benes.pdf file_size: 488482 relation: main_file file_date_updated: 2020-07-14T12:45:19Z has_accepted_license: '1' intvolume: ' 52' issue: 2-3 language: - iso: eng month: '04' oa: 1 oa_version: Submitted Version page: 269 - 297 project: - _id: 25EE3708-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FP7 grant_number: '267989' name: Quantitative Reactive Modeling - _id: 25832EC2-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FWF grant_number: S 11407_N23 name: Rigorous Systems Engineering publication: Acta Informatica publication_status: published publisher: Springer publist_id: '5255' quality_controlled: '1' scopus_import: 1 status: public title: Refinement checking on parametric modal transition systems type: journal_article user_id: 2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 volume: 52 year: '2015' ...