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...
ion of LOTOS Abstract Data Types Hubert GARAVEL∗ Laboratoire de G´enie Informatique Institut I.M.A.G. GRENOBLE FRANCE This article describes an experiment with the compilation o...
This paper describes a decision procedure for bisimulation-based equivalence relations between labeled transition systems. The algorithm usually performed in order to verify bisim...
The record of successful applications of formal verification techniques is slowly growing. Our ultimate aim, however, is not to perform small pilot projects that show that verific...
Behavioural protocols are beneficial to Component-Based Software Engineering and Service-Oriented Computing as they foster automatic procedures for discovery, composition, composi...