HABILITATION À DIRIGER LES RECHERCHES Spécialité Informatique par

This paper presents a formal behavioural specification framework for specifying and verifying the correct behaviour of distributed Fractal components. The first contribution is a parameterised and hierarchical behavioural model called pNets that serves as a lowlevel semantic framework for expressing the behaviour of various classes of distributed languages and as a common internal format for our tools. Then, we use this model to define the generation of behavioural models for applications ranging from sequential Fractal components, to distributed objects, and finally to distributed components. Our models are able to characterise both functional and non-functional behaviours and the interaction between the two concerns. Finally, this work has resulted in the development of tools allowing the non-expert programmer to specify the behaviour of his components and (semi)automatically verify properties of his application. T. Barros Universidad de Chili, Ejército 441, Santiago, Chile e-mail: [email protected] R. Ameur-Boulifa GET/ENST/LabSoC, Telecom Paristech, BP 193, 06904 Sophia-Antipolis Cedex, France e-mail: [email protected] A. Cansado · L. Henrio · E. Madelaine (B) INRIA Sophia-Antipolis, CNRS, UNSA, INRIA, Oasis. 2004, Route des Lucioles, BP 93, 06902 Sophia-Antipolis Cedex, France e-mail: [email protected] A. Cansado e-mail: [email protected] L. Henrio e-mail: [email protected]