A formal technique to analyze real-time systems

A technique to analyze the temporal properties of real-time systems is presented in this paper. In our framework, the behavior of the system under development, which is modeled in an extension of Statecharts called Statecharts+, is captured by the underlying computational model, Timed Automata. On the basis of the operational semantics defined for arbitrary time domains, we present a formal translation technique to compile the real-time system specification into Timed Automata. Therefore, model checking of real-time properties can be applied to the automatic analysis of real-time systems.<>