Model Checking Pervasive Context-Aware Systems

Many approaches on context-aware systems specification have been proposed in the literature. However, the absence or poor representation of contextual information and its relationships with system entities in these approaches usually leads to low-precision and irrelevant results. The aim of this paper is to promote the ability to specify and verify context-aware systems. Our proposed modeling methodology exploits Maude reflection and meta-programming to define a domain specific language for context-aware systems specification and adopts Maude model checker to verify system inherent properties. Moreover, a runtime environment implementing the proposed model is developed for pervasive context-aware systems execution.