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1998
IEEE
15 years 3 months ago
Formal Specification in Collaborative Design of Critical Software Tools
Engineers use software tools to analyze designs for critical systems. Because important decisions are based on tool results, tools must provide valid modeling constructs; engineer...
David Coppit, Kevin J. Sullivan
IFIP13
2004
15 years 1 months ago
Formal Verification and Validation of Interactive Systems Specifications
: This paper proposes a development process for interactive systems based both on verification and validation methods. Our approach is formal and use at first the B Method. We show...
Yamine Aït Ameur, Benoit Breholée, Pat...
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ENTCS
2008
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14 years 11 months ago
Experimenting Formal Proofs of Petri Nets Refinements
Petri nets are a formalism for modelling and validating critical systems. Generally, the approach to specification starts from an abstract view of the system under study. Once val...
Christine Choppy, Micaela Mayero, Laure Petrucci
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ASWEC
2007
IEEE
15 years 6 months ago
Formal Validation of Hierarchical State Machines against Expectations
This paper explains some analyses that can be performed on a hierarchical finite state machine to validate that it performs as intended. Such a hierarchical state machine has tra...
Ian Toyn, Andy Galloway
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FORTE
1996
15 years 1 months ago
Formal Description Techniques - How Formal and Descriptive are they?
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...
Manfred Broy