A formal framework to model and validate event-based software architecture

Today, distributed systems with loose connections are increasingly developed using event-based architectures. In these architectures, systems are composed of separate components which cooperate dynamically. The communication and cooperation of components in these architectures are done through event passing mechanisms. The main challenge in these architectures is to define a framework to model and validate systems under development. In this paper, we propose a framework using ASMETA (ASM mETA language) for modelling systems through event-based architectures. Validation of the whole system is done through model checking using Bogor. We describe the process of automatically mapping ASM models to BIR –the input language of Bogor-. In the end, we present our experimental results using the proposed approach with different case studies.