Pre-deployment tests of sensor networks in indoor testbeds can only deliver a very approximate view of the correctness and performance of a deployed sensor network and it is theref...
Design by Contract (DbC) is widely acknowledged to be a powerful technique for creating reliable software. DbC allows developers to specify the behavior of an operation precisely ...
I report on an experience using the Coq proof assistant to develop a program verification tool with a machine-checkable proof of full correctness. The verifier is able to prove me...
traction and information hiding K. RUSTAN M. LEINO and GREG NELSON Compaq Systems Research Center er describes an approach for verifying programs in the presence of data abstractio...
We argue that the key underpinning of the current state-of-the real-time practice — the priority artifact — and that of the current state-of-the real-time art — deadline-bas...