Real-time systems such as medical devices, surgical robots, and microprocessors are safety- critical applications that have hard timing constraint. The correctness of real-time systems is important as the failure may result in severe consequences such as loss of money, time and human life. These real-time systems have software to control their behavior. Typically, these software have source code which is converted to object code and then executed in safety-critical embedded devices. Therefore, it is important to ensure that both source code and object code are error-free. When dealing with safety-critical systems, formal verification techniques have laid the foundation for ensuring software correctness. Refinement based technique in formal verification can be used for the verification of real- time interrupt-driven object code. This dissertation presents an automated tool that verifies the functional and timing correctness of real-time interrupt-driven object code programs. The tool has been developed in three stages. In the first stage, a novel timed refinement procedure that checks for timing properties has been developed and applied on six case studies. The required model and an abstraction technique were generated manually. The results indicate that the proposed abstraction technique reduces the size of the implementation model by at least four orders of magnitude. In the second stage, the proposed abstraction technique has been automated. This technique has been applied to thirty different case studies. The results indicate that the automated abstraction technique can easily reduce the model size, which would in turn significantly reduce the verification time. In the final stage, two new automated algorithms are proposed which would check the functional properties through safety and liveness. These algorithms were applied to the same thirty case studies. The results indicate that the functional verification can be performed in less than a second for the reduced model. The benefits of automating the verification process for real-time interrupt-driven object code include: 1) the overall size of the implementation model has reduced significantly; 2) the verification is within a reasonable time; 3) can be applied multiple times in the system development process. / Several parts of this dissertation was funded by a grant from the United States Government and the generous support of the American people through the United States Department of State and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) under the Pakistan – U.S. Science & Technology Cooperation Program. The contents do not necessarily reflect the views of the United States Government.

This thesis is concerned with the modeling and the analysis of distributedreal-time systems. In distributed systems, components evolve partlyindependently: concurrent actions may be performed in any order, withoutinfluencing each other and the state reached after these actions does notdepends on the order of execution. The time constraints in distributed real-timesystems create complex dependencies between the components and the events thatoccur. So far, distributed real-time systems have not been deeply studied, andin particular the distributed aspect of these systems is often left aside. Thisthesis explores distributed real-time systems. Our work on distributed real-timesystems is based on two formalisms: time Petri nets and networks of timedautomata, and is divided into two parts.In the first part, we highlight the differences between centralized anddistributed timed systems. We compare the main formalisms and their extensions,with a novel approach that focuses on the preservation of concurrency. Inparticular, we show how to translate a time Petri net into a network of timedautomata with the same distributed behavior. We then study a concurrency relatedproblem: shared clocks in networks of timed automata can be problematic when oneconsiders the implementation of a model on a multi-core architecture. We showhow to avoid shared clocks while preserving the distributed behavior, when thisis possible.In the second part, we focus on formalizing the dependencies between events inpartial order representations of the executions of Petri nets and time Petrinets. Occurrence nets is one of these partial order representations, and theirstructure directly provides the causality, conflict and concurrency relationsbetween events. However, we show that, even in the untimed case, some logicaldependencies between event occurrences are not directly described by thesestructural relations. After having formalized these logical dependencies, wesolve the following synthesis problem: from a formula that describes a set ofruns, we build an associated occurrence net. Then we study the logicalrelations in a simplified timed setting and show that time creates complexdependencies between event occurrences. These dependencies can be used to definea canonical unfolding, for this particular timed setting.

Cette thèse s'intéresse à la modélisation et à l'analyse dessystèmes temps-réel distribués.Un système distribué est constitué de plusieurs composantsqui évoluent de manière partiellement indépendante. Lorsque des actionsexécutables par différentscomposants sont indépendantes, elles sont dites concurrentes.Dans ce cas, elles peuvent être exécutées dans n'importe quel ordre, sanss'influencer, et l'état atteint après ces actions ne dépend pas de leur ordred'exécution.Dans les systèmes temps-réel distribués, les contraintes de temps créent desdépendances complexes entre les composants et les événements qui ont lieu surces composants. Malgré l'omniprésence et l'aspect critique de ces systèmes,beaucoup de leurs propriétés restent encore à étudier.En particulier, la nature distribuée de ces systèmes est souvent laissée de côté.Notre travail s'appuie sur deux formalismesde modélisation: les réseaux de Petri temporels et les réseaux d'automatestemporisés, et est divisé en deux parties.Dans la première partie, nous mettons en évidence les différences entre lessystèmes temporisés centralisés et les systèmes temporisés distribués. Nouscomparons les formalismes principaux et leurs extensions, avec une approcheoriginale qui considère la concurrence.En particulier, nous montrons comment transformer un réseau de Petri temporelen un réseau d'automates temporisés qui a le même comportement distribué.Nous nous intéressons ensuite aux horloges partagées dans lesréseaux d'automates temporisés. Les horloges partagées sont problématiqueslorsque l'on envisage d'implanter ces modèles sur des architecturesdistribuées. Nous montrons comment se passer des horloges partagées, touten préservant le comportement distribué, lorsque cela est possible.Dans la seconde partie, nous nous attachons à formaliser les dépendancesentre les événements dans les représentations en ordre partieldes exécutions des réseaux de Petri (temporels ou non).Les réseaux d'occurrence sont une de ces représentations, et leur structuredonne directement les relations de causalité, conflit et concurrence entreles événements. Cependant, nous montrons que, même dans le cas non temporisé,certaines relations logiques entre les événements nepeuvent pas être directement décrites par ces relations structurelles.Après avoir formalisé les relations logiques en question, nous résolvons leproblème de synthèse suivant: étant donnée une formule logique qui décrit unensemble d'exécutions, construire un réseau d'occurrence associé,quand celui-ci existe.Nous étudions ensuite les relations logiques dans un cadre temporisé simplifié,et montrons que le temps crée des dépendances complexes entre les événements.Ces dépendances peuvent être utilisées pour définir des dépliages canoniques deréseaux de Petri temporels, dans ce cadre simplifié. / This thesis is concerned with the modeling and the analysis of distributedreal-time systems. In distributed systems, components evolve partlyindependently: concurrent actions may be performed in any order, withoutinfluencing each other and the state reached after these actions does notdepends on the order of execution. The time constraints in distributed real-timesystems create complex dependencies between the components and the events thatoccur. So far, distributed real-time systems have not been deeply studied, andin particular the distributed aspect of these systems is often left aside. Thisthesis explores distributed real-time systems. Our work on distributed real-timesystems is based on two formalisms: time Petri nets and networks of timedautomata, and is divided into two parts.In the first part, we highlight the differences between centralized anddistributed timed systems. We compare the main formalisms and their extensions,with a novel approach that focuses on the preservation of concurrency. Inparticular, we show how to translate a time Petri net into a network of timedautomata with the same distributed behavior. We then study a concurrency relatedproblem: shared clocks in networks of timed automata can be problematic when oneconsiders the implementation of a model on a multi-core architecture. We showhow to avoid shared clocks while preserving the distributed behavior, when thisis possible.In the second part, we focus on formalizing the dependencies between events inpartial order representations of the executions of Petri nets and time Petrinets. Occurrence nets is one of these partial order representations, and theirstructure directly provides the causality, conflict and concurrency relationsbetween events. However, we show that, even in the untimed case, some logicaldependencies between event occurrences are not directly described by thesestructural relations. After having formalized these logical dependencies, wesolve the following synthesis problem: from a formula that describes a set ofruns, we build an associated occurrence net. Then we study the logicalrelations in a simplified timed setting and show that time creates complexdependencies between event occurrences. These dependencies can be used to definea canonical unfolding, for this particular timed setting.