A certifying compiler takes a source language program and produces object code, as well as a certi cate" that can be used to verify that the object code satis es desirable pr...
A key concern in safety engineering is understanding the overall emergent failure behaviour of a system, i.e., behaviour exhibited by the system that is outside its specification ...
Traditionally, infinite databases were studied as a data model for queries that may contain function symbols (since functions may be expressed as infinite relations). Recently, th...
Model checking techniques are promising for automated generation of directed tests. However, due to the prohibitively large time and resource requirements, conventional model chec...
Partially Ordered Symbolic Automata (POSAs) are used as the semantical foundation of visual formalisms like the scenario based language of Live Sequence Charts (LSCs). To check whe...