Formal Methods for Industrial Critical Systems

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Formal Methods ◽  
Critical Systems

scholarly journals Preface to special issue: lightweight and practical formal methods in the design and analysis of safety-critical systems

2013 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 675-675
Author(s):  
AZER BESTAVROS ◽  
ASSAF KFOURY
Keyword(s):  
Computer Science ◽  
Formal Methods ◽  
Wide Spectrum ◽  
Critical Systems ◽  
Research Groups ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Mathematical Structures ◽  
Safety Critical ◽  
Safety Critical Systems ◽  
Final Selection

The papers included in this special issue of Mathematical Structures in Computer Science were selected from a larger set we solicited from leading research groups on both sides of the Atlantic. They cover a wide spectrum of tutorials, recent results and surveys in the area of lightweight and practical formal methods in the design and analysis of safety-critical systems. All the papers we received were submitted to a rigorous process of review and revision, based on which we made our final selection.

The practice of formal methods in safety-critical systems

1995 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-87 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shaoying Liu ◽  
Victoria Stavridou ◽  
Bruno Dutertre
Keyword(s):  
Formal Methods ◽  
Critical Systems ◽  
Safety Critical ◽  
Safety Critical Systems

scholarly journals Preface to the special issue on Formal Methods for Industrial Critical Systems (FMICS 2007 + FMICS 2008)

2011 ◽  
Vol 76 (2) ◽  
pp. 63-64
Author(s):  
Darren Cofer ◽  
Alessandro Fantechi ◽  
Stefan Leue ◽  
Pedro Merino
Keyword(s):  
Formal Methods ◽  
Critical Systems ◽  
Special Issue

scholarly journals Preface to the special section on Formal Methods for Industrial Critical Systems (FMICS 2009 + FMICS 2010)

2013 ◽  
Vol 78 (7) ◽  
pp. 775-777
Author(s):  
María Alpuente ◽  
Christophe Joubert ◽  
Stefan Kowalewski ◽  
Marco Roveri
Keyword(s):  
Formal Methods ◽  
Special Section ◽  
Critical Systems

scholarly journals A methodology for model-based verification of safety contracts and performance requirements

2016 ◽  
Vol 232 (3) ◽  
pp. 227-247 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elena Gómez-Martínez ◽  
Ricardo J Rodríguez ◽  
Clara Benac-Earle ◽  
Leire Etxeberria ◽  
Miren Illarramendi
Keyword(s):  
Formal Methods ◽  
Language Model ◽  
Critical Systems ◽  
Object Constraint Language ◽  
Modelling Language ◽  
Industrial Case Study ◽  
Safety Requirements ◽  
Safety Critical ◽  
Unified Modelling Language ◽  
Constraint Language

The verification of safety requirements becomes crucial in critical systems where human lives depend on their correct functioning. Formal methods have often been advocated as necessary to ensure the reliability of software systems, albeit with a considerable effort. In any case, such an effort is cost-effective when verifying safety-critical systems. Often, safety requirements are expressed using safety contracts, in terms of assumptions and guarantees. To facilitate the adoption of formal methods in the safety-critical software industry, we propose a methodology based on well-known modelling languages such as the unified modelling language and object constraint language. The unified modelling language is used to model the software system while object constraint language is used to express the system safety contracts within the unified modelling language. In the proposed methodology a unified modelling language model enriched with object constraint language constraints is transformed to a Petri net model that enables us to formally verify such safety contracts. The methodology is evaluated on an industrial case study. The proposed approach allows an early safety verification to be performed, which increases the confidence of software engineers while designing the system.

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