An evaluation framework for energy aware buildings using statistical model checking

Cyber-physical systems are to be found in numerous applications throughout society. The principal barrier to develop trustworthy cyber-physical systems is the lack of expressive modelling and specification formalisms supported by efficient tools and methodologies. To overcome this barrier, we extend in this paper the modelling formalism of the tool UPPAAL-SMC to stochastic hybrid automata, thus providing the expressive power required for modelling complex cyber-physical systems. The application of Statistical Model Checking provides a highly scalable technique for analyzing performance properties of this formalisms.