I discuss formal description techniques (FDTs) as they are applied in practice in software and system engineering. Their quality can be measured by their formality, descriptivenes...
Design patterns describe good solutions to common and recurring problems. The applications of design patterns may vary in different layouts, which pose challenges for recovering a...
for reasoning about abstract models of protocols. The work on informal methods attempts to discern common patterns in the extensive record of flawed protocols, and to formulate po...
Experiments with simulators allow psychologists to better understand the causes of human errors and build models of cognitive processes to be used in Human Reliability Assessment ...
Abstract. In order to design and analyse complex systems, modelers need formal models with two contradictory requirements: a high expressivity and the decidability of behavioural p...