Alvis Virtual Machine

Abstract

Alvis is a formal modelling language. It combines graphical modelling of communication schema and a high level programming language to describe behaviour of individual system entities. An Alvis model can be verified formally by using methods based on a system state space. The paper presents the design and the command list of the Alvis Virtual Machine. The aim of the project is to provide an execution environment for Alvis language. Moreover, one of the goals is to allow different hardware units to run Alvis models. Thus, a virtual machine was chosen as a solution.

Overview of Verification Tools for Business Process Models

“…One can verify time constraints of concurrent system with time version of Alvis framework [87]. The Alvis tool set may be used not only to verify a model of concurrent system but to simulate a provided model together with computation of time dependent statistics of simulation results [88], [89].…”

Alvis models of safety critical systems state-base verification with nuXmv

“…The formal verifications of such systems is a ground for many current scientific projects [11]. The ongoing research on the Alvis language include also building an Alvis simulator, Alvis Virtual Machine [12] and automatic Java code generation [13].…”