: This introductory paper gives some historical background to the emergence of formal methods, overviews what subsequently happened, and surveys prospects for the future. Brief
: In this paper the problem of parameter estimation of an input – output system is discussed. It is assumed that the system is described by the relation known with accuracy to so...
Abstract: We introduce the notion of ∧- and ∨-pairs of functions on lattices as an abstraction of the notions of metric and its related entropy for probability distributions. T...
: This paper introduces the notion of pedagogical natural deduction systems, which are natural deduction systems with the following additional constraint: all hypotheses made in a ...
: This paper introduces model checking, originally conceived for checking finite state systems. It surveys its evolution to encompass finitely checkable properties of systems wit...