A Boolean Control Network Approach to the Formal Verification of Feedback Context-Aware Pervasive Systems

Abstract: The emergence of Context-aware systems in the domains of autonomic, monitoring, and safety-critical applications asks for the definition of methods to formally assess their correctness and dependability properties. Many of these properties are common to Automatic Control systems, a field that developed well established analysis and design techniques to formalize and investigate them. In this paper, we use Boolean Control Networks, to discuss some properties of a feedback Context-aware system in a case study based on a healthcare management example.