FM
2003
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
2003
Springer
Software systems are often model checked by translating them into a directly model-checkable formalism. Any serious software system requires application of compositional reasoning ...
FM
2003
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
2003
Springer
This paper describes the lessons we learned over a thirteen year period while helping to develop the shutdown systems for the nuclear generating station at Darlington, Ontario, Can...
FM
2003
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
2003
Springer
Safety is increasingly important for software based, critical systems. Fault tree analysis (FTA) is a safety technique from engineering, developed for analyzing and assessing syste...
FM
2003
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
2003
Springer
We present a semantics for fault tree analysis, a technique used for the analysis of safety critical systems, in the real-time interval logic Duration Calculus with Liveness and sh...
FM
2003
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
2003
Springer
As the systems we have to specify and verify become larger and more complex, there is a mounting need to combine different tools and decision procedures to accomplish large proof ...
FM
2003
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
2003
Springer
: Real computer-based systems fail, and hence are often far less dependable than their owners and users need and desire. Individuals, organisations and indeed the world at large ar...
FM
2003
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
2003
Springer
Abstract. UnifyingTheoriesofProgramming(UTP)canprovideaformalsemantic foundation not only for programming languages but also for more expressive specification languages. We believ...
FM
2003
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
2003
Springer
Simple retrenchment is briefly reviewed in the B language of J.-R. Abrial [1] as a liberalisation of classical refinement, for the formal description of application developments ...
FM
2003
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
2003
Springer
We present a novel application on model checking through SPIN as a means for verifying purely descriptive specifications written in TRIO, a first order, linear-time temporal logic ...
FM
2003
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
2003
Springer
Incomplete, inaccurate, ambiguous, and volatile requirements have plagued the software industry since its inception. The convergence of model-based development and formal methods o...