On Representation of Simulation Time in Functional Programming Style

Abstract

Functional programming is becoming increasingly useful in the modern computerized world. This approach helps create code that is more reliable, easier to reason about, and automatically verifiable. However, these techniques are rarely employed for developing design tools and modeling critical systems. In this work, we try to apply some suitable techniques of functional programming to create a modeling system, namely, a simulation system for analyzing temporal behavioral properties of critical systems. As the first step, we design a representation of simulation time in terms of abstractions used in functional programming and try to investigate its compositionability.