We give examples of situations where formal specifications of procedures in the standard pre/postcondition style become lengthy, cumbersome and difficult to change, a problem whic...
Alexander Borgida, John Mylopoulos, Raymond Reiter
UML and MSC are widely used by software practitioners. SDL is an ITU standard language for telecommunications software specification. It has a formal semantics, and is supported b...
Industrial verification teams are actively developing suitable event sequence languages for hardware verification. Such languages must be expressive, designer friendly, and hardwar...
This paper describes the general architecture of generation in the ACORDproject. The central module of this architecture is a planning component, which allows to plan single sente...
System specifications have long been expressed through automata-based languages, enabling verification techniques such as model checking. These verification techniques can assess ...