Publications and Workshops

This page links ABS workshops, as well as selected research papers on the development and usage of the ABS modeling language and analysis tools.

ABS Workshops

• 2017 First International ABS Workshop: May 31–June 2, 2017, Oslo, Norway.

• 2018 Second International ABS Workshop: May 28–May 30, 2018, Darmstadt, Germany. https://formbar.raillab.de/en/abs2018/

• 2019 Third International ABS Workshop: May 13–May 15, 2019, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. https://www.cwi.nl/research/groups/formal-methods/events/third-international-workshop-on-the-abs-modeling-language-and-tools

• 2021 Fourth International ABS Workshop: August 26–August 27, 2021, Virtual. https://formbar.raillab.de/en/abs-workshop-2021/

• 2023 Fifth International ABS Workshop: October 04-06, 2023, Lyon, France. https://edkamb.github.io/ABS_23/

• 2024 APM Workshop 2024: October 02-04, 2024, Turin, Italy. https://edkamb.github.io/APM_24/

Case Studies

• G. Turin, A. Borgarelli, S. Donetti, E. B. Johnsen, S. L. Tapia Tarifa, and F. Damiani.
  A Formal Model of the Kubernetes Container Framework..
  Leveraging Applications of Formal Methods, Verification and Validation (ISoLA 2020). LNCS 12476. Springer, 2020.
  DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-61362-4_32. Download a preprint.

• J-C Lin, M-C Lee, I. C. Yu, and E. B. Johnsen.
  A configurable and executable model of Spark Streaming on Apache YARN.
  International Journal of Grid and Utility Computing. Volume 11(2). Indescience, 2020.
  DOI: 10.1504/IJGUC.2020.105531. Download a preprint.

• E. Kamburjan, R. Hähnle, and S. Schön Formal modeling and analysis of railway operations with active objects.
  Science of Computer Programming. Volume 166. Elsevier, 2018.
  DOI: 10.1016/j.scico.2018.07.001.

• E. Albert, F. de Boer, R. Hähnle, E. B. Johnsen, R. Schlatte, S. L. Tapia Tarifa, and P. Y. H. Wong.
  Formal modeling and analysis of resource management for cloud architectures: an industrial case study using Real-Time ABS.
  Service Oriented Computing and Applications 8 (4):323-339, 2014.
  DOI: 10.1007/s11761-013-0148-0. Download a preprint.

Language Development

• L. Tveito, E. B. Johnsen, and R. Schlatte.
  Global Reproducibility through Local Control for Distributed Active Objects.
  In Proc. 23th International Conference on Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering (FASE 2020), LNCS 12076. Springer , 2020.
  DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-45234-6_7. Download a preprint.

• R. Schlatte, E. B. Johnsen, J. Mauro, S. L. Tapia Tarifa, and I. C. Yu .
  Release the Beasts: When Formal Methods Meet Real World Data.
  Festschrift Farhad Arbab, LNCS 10865. Springer , 2018.
  DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-25271-6_8. Download a preprint.

• E. Kamburjan.
  From post-conditions to post-region invariants: deductive verification of hybrid objects..
  In 24th ACM International Conference on Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control (HSCC 2021). ACM , 2021.
  DOI: 10.1145/3447928.3456633.

• E. B. Johnsen, R. Hähnle, J. Schäfer, R. Schlatte, and M. Steffen.
  ABS: A Core Language for Abstract Behavioral Specification.
  In Proc. 9th Intl. Symp. on Formal Methods for Components and Objects (FMCO 2010), LNCS 6957. Springer , 2011.
  DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-25271-6_8. Download a preprint.

• E. B. Johnsen, R. Schlatte, and S. L. Tapia Tarifa.
  Integrating Deployment Architecture and Resource Consumption in Timed Object-Oriented Models.
  Journal of Logical and Algebraic Methods in Programming 84(1): 67-91, 2015.
  DOI: 10.1016/j.jlamp.2014.07.001. Download a preprint.

• Joakim Bjørk, Frank S. de Boer, Einar Broch Johnsen, Rudolf Schlatte, and S. L. Tapia Tarifa.
  User-defined schedulers for real-time concurrent objects.
  Innovations Syst Softw Eng 9(1): 29-43 (2013).
  DOI: 10.1007/s11334-012-0184-5. Download a preprint.

• F. Damiani, R. Hähnle, E. Kamburjan, M. Lienhardt.
  A Unified and Formal Programming Model for Deltas and Traits.
  Proc. 20th International Conference on Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering (FASE 2017), LNCS 10202. Springer, 2017.
  DOI: 10.1007/978-3-662-54494-5_25. Download a postprint.

Software Product Lines

• F. Damiani, R. Hähnle, E. Kamburjan, M. Lienhardt, L. Paolini.
  Variability modules for Java-like languages.
  Proc. 25th ACM International Systems and Software Product Line Conference (SPLC 2021). ACM, 2021.
  DOI: 10.1145/3461001.3471143.

• F. Damiani, M. Lienhardt, R. Muschevici, I. Schaefer.
  An Extension of the ABS Toolchain with a Mechanism for Type Checking SPLs.
  Proc. 13th International Conference on Integrated Formal Methods (IFM 2017), LNCS 10510. Springer, 2017.
  DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-66845-1_8. Download a postprint.

Deductive Verification

• E. Kamburjan, C. C. Din, R. Hähnle and E. B. Johnsen.
  Behavioral Contracts for Cooperative Scheduling.
  In Deductive Software Verification: Future Perspectives, LNCS 12345. Springer, 2020.
  DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-64354-6_4. Download a preprint.

• C. C. Din, R. Bubel and R. Hähnle.
  KeY-ABS: A Deductive Verification Tool for the Concurrent Modelling Language ABS.
  In Proc. 25th Intl. Conf. on Automated Deduction (CADE 2015), LNCS 9195. Springer, 2015.
  DOI:10.1007/978-3-319-21401-6_35. Download a preprint.

• C. C. Din, S. L. Tapia Tarifa, R. Hähnle and E. B. Johnsen.
  History-Based Specification and Verification of Scalable Concurrent and Distributed Systems.
  In Proc. 17th Intl. Conf. on Formal Engineering Method (ICFEM 2015), LNCS 9407. Springer, 2015.
  DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-25423-4_14. Download a preprint.

Analysis

• C. Laneve, M. Lienhardt, K. I Pun, and G. Román-Díez.
  Time analysis of actor programs.
  Journal of Logical and Algebraic Methods in Programming, Volume 105, Elsevier, 2019.
  DOI: 10.1016/j.jlamp.2019.02.007.

• A. Garcia, C. Laneve, and M. Lienhardt.
  Static analysis of cloud elasticity.
  Science of Computer Programming, Volume 147, Elsevier, 2017.
  DOI: 10.1016/j.scico.2017.03.008.

• E. Albert, P. Arenas, A. Flores-Montoya, S. Genaim, M. Gómez-Zamalloa, E. Martin-Martin, G. Puebla, and G. Román-Díez.
  SACO: Static Analyzer for Concurrent Objects.
  In Proc. 20th Intl. Conf. on Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems (TACAS). LNCS 8413, Springer, 2014.
  DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-54862-8_46. Download a preprint.

• E. Giachino, C. Laneve, and M. Lienhardt.
  A Framework for Deadlock Detection in ABS.
  Journal of Software and Systems Modeling, Volume 15(4), Springer, 2015.
  DOI: 10.1007/s10270-014-0444-y.

ABS Tools

• Rudolf Schlatte, Einar Broch Johnsen, Eduard Kamburjan and S. Lizeth Tapia Tarifa
  The ABS simulator toolchain Science of Computer Programming. Volume 233. Elsevier, 2022.
  DOI: 10.1016/j.scico.2022.102861.

Code Generation from ABS

• B. Nobakht and F. S. de Boer.
  Programming with Actors in Java 8.
  In Proc. of the 6th Intl. Symposium on Leveraging Applications of Formal Methods, Verification and Validation (ISoLA’14). LNCS 8803. Springer, 2014.
  DOI: 10.1007/978-3-662-45231-8_4. Download a preprint.

Model-based Deployment and Monitoring

• R. Hähnle and E. B. Johnsen.
  Designing Resource-Aware Cloud Applications.
  IEEE Computer 48 (6), 2015.
  DOI: 10.1109/MC.2015.172. Download a preprint.

• B. Nobakht, S. de Gouw and F.S. de Boer.
  Formal Verification of Service Level Agreements Through Distributed Monitoring.
  In Proc. 4th European Conf. on Service Oriented and Cloud Computing (ESOCC 2015). LNCS 9306, Springer, 2015.
  DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-24072-5_9. Download a preprint.