Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC) are widespread in the manufacturing and processing industries to realize sequential procedures and to avoid safety-critical states. For the spe...
Nanette Bauer, Sebastian Engell, Ralf Huuck, Sven ...
We show how to use an interactive theorem prover, HOL, together with a model checker, SPIN, to prove key properties of distance vector routing protocols. We do three case studies: ...
Karthikeyan Bhargavan, Davor Obradovic, Carl A. Gu...
One of the prerequisites for information society is secure and reliable communication among computing systems. Accordingly, network security appliances become key components of inf...
This paper presents techniques for analyzing channel contract specifications in Microsoft Research’s Singularity operating system. A channel contract is a state machine that sp...
The design of safety critical systems calls for advanced software engineering models, methods and tools in order to meet the safety requirements that will avoid putting human life ...