A limiting factor in the industrial acceptance of formal specifications is their readability, particularly for large, complex engineering systems. We hypothesize that multiple vis...
Nicolas Dulac, Thomas Viguier, Nancy G. Leveson, M...
“Faster, Better, Cheaper” (FBC) was a systems development methodology used by NASA in the 1990s. While usually a deprecated practice, we find that, with certain caveats, it is...
Abstract—Atomicity, a general correctness criterion in concurrency programs, is often violated in real-world applications. The violations are difficult for developers to fix, m...
Nominal calculi have been shown very effective to formally model a variety of computational phenomena. The models of nominal calculi have often infinite states, thus making model ...
Perhaps surprisingly, no practical performance models exist for popular (and complex) client applications such as Adobe’s Creative Suite, Microsoft’s Office and Visual Studio...
Eno Thereska, Bjoern Doebel, Alice X. Zheng, Peter...