Download or read book An International Survey of Industrial Applications of Formal Methods Vol 1 written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Formal methods are mathematically based techniques, often supported by reasoning tools, that can offer a rigorous and effective way to model, design, and analyze computer systems. The purpose of this study is to evaluate international industrial experience in using formal methods. The cases selected are believed to be representative of industrial grade projects and span a variety of application domains. This volume, the first of a two-volume final report, includes a discussion on formal methods and a brief characterization of the formal and related methods used in the cases. It also contains a summary of the twelve cases, a description of the methodology used in the international survey of experience with formal methods, a cluster-by-cluster analysis of the data, a discussion of the key events and timing associated with each case, and an analysis of the formal methods research and development summary.
Download or read book An International Survey of Industrial Applications of Formal Methods Volume 1 Purpose Approach Analysis and Conclusions written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Formal methods are mathematically based techniques, often supported by reasoning tools, that can offer a rigorous and effective way to model, design, and analyze computer systems. The purpose of this study is to evaluate international industrial experience in using formal methods. The cases selected are, we believe, representative of industrial-grade projects and span a variety of application domains. The study had three main objectives: to better inform deliberations within industry and government on standards and regulations; to provide an authoritative record on the practical experience of formal methods to date; and to suggest areas where future research and technology development are needed. This is the first volume of a two-volume final report on an international survey of industrial applications of formal methods. This volume describes the study, the formal methods, the cases that were studied, our approach to performing the study, and our analysis, findings, and conclusions. Volume 2 details the 12 case studies. Formal methods, Reasoning tools, System design, Computer systems, Formal specification, Design verification.
Download or read book An International Survey of Industrial Applications of Formal Methods Volume 2 Case Studies written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Formal methods are mathematically based techniques, often supported by reasoning tools, that can offer a rigorous and effective way to model, design, and analyze computer systems. The purpose of this study is to evaluate international industrial experience in using formal methods. The cases selected are, we believe, representative of industrial-grade projects and span a variety of application domains. The study had three main objectives: (1) to better inform deliberations within industry and government on standards and regulations; (2) to provide an authoritative record on the practical experience of formal methods to date; and (3) to suggest areas where future research and technology development are needed. This is the second volume of a two volume final report on an international survey of industrial applications of formal methods. In this volume, we provide the details of the 12 case studies. For each of the case studies, we present a case description, summarize the information obtained (from interviews and the literature), provide an evaluation of the case, highlight R & D issues pertaining to formal methods and provide some conclusions. Formal methods, Reasoning tools, System design, Computer systems, Formal specification, Design.
Download or read book Scientific and Technical Aerospace Reports written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lists citations with abstracts for aerospace related reports obtained from world wide sources and announces documents that have recently been entered into the NASA Scientific and Technical Information Database.
Download or read book Industrial Applications of Formal Methods to Model Design and Analyze Computer Systems written by Dan Craigen and published by William Andrew. This book was released on 2012-12-02 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Formal methods are mathematically-based techniques, often supported by reasoning tools, that can offer a rigorous and effective way to model, design and analyze computer systems. The purpose of this study is to evaluate international industrial experience in using formal methods. The cases selected are representative of industrial-grade projects and span a variety of application domains. The study had three main objectives: · To better inform deliberations within industry and government on standards and regulations; · To provide an authoritative record on the practical experience of formal methods to date; and À To suggest areas where future research and technology development are needed. This study was undertaken by three experts in formal methods and software engineering: Dan Craigen of ORA Canada, Susan Gerhart of Applied Formal Methods, and Ted Ralston of Ralston Research Associates. Robin Bloomfield of Adelard was involved with the Darlington Nuclear Generating Station Shutdown System case. Support for this study was provided by organizations in Canada and the United States. The Atomic Energy Control Board of Canada (AECB) provided support for Dan Craigen and for the technical editing provided by Karen Summerskill. The U.S. Naval Research Laboratories (NRL), Washington, DC, provided support for all three authors. The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) provided support for Ted Ralston.
Download or read book Applications of Formal Methods written by Michael Gerard Hinchey and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of case studies contains contributions illustrating the application of formal methods to real-life problems with industrial relevance.
Download or read book FME 2003 Formal Methods written by Keijiro Araki and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2003-08-27 with total page 955 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Symposium of Formal Methods Europe, FME 2003, held in Pisa, Italy in September 2003. The 44 revised full papers presented together with 5 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 144 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on industrial issues, control systems and applications, communication system verfication, co-specification and compilers, composition, Java, object-orientation and modularity, model checking, parallel processes, program checking and testing, B method, and security.
Download or read book Publications of the National Institute of Standards and Technology Catalog written by National Institute of Standards and Technology (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fourth NASA Langley Formal Methods Workshop written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Computer Science and Technology written by Allen Kent and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2021-05-30 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 38 - Supplement 23: Algorithms for Designing Multimedia Storage Servers to Models and Architectures. Covering more than basic computer commands and procedures, this encyclopaedia summarizes how technology has developed, the future of computer programs and applications, and the significance of computer components. Following an introduction and overview, there are approximately 750 to 800 entries.
Download or read book Discrete Event Systems written by R. Boel and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2000-07-31 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discrete Event Systems: Analysis and Control is the proceedings of WODES2000 (the 5th Workshop on Discrete Event Systems, held in Ghent, Belgium, on August 21-23, 2000). This book provides a survey of the current state of the art in the field of modeling, analysis and control synthesis of discrete event systems, lecture notes for a mini course on sensitivity analysis for performance evaluation of timed discrete event systems, and 48 carefully selected papers covering all areas of discrete event theory and the most important applications domains. Topics include automata theory and supervisory control (12); Petri net based models for discrete event systems, and their control synthesis (11); (max,+) and timed automata models (9); applications papers related to scheduling, failure detection, and implementation of supervisory controllers (7); formal description of PLCs (6); and finally, stochastic models of discrete event systems (3).
Download or read book Z User Workshop Cambridge 1994 written by J.P. Bowen and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains papers from the Eighth Z User Meeting, to be held at the University of Cambridge from 29 - 30 June 1994. The papers cover a wide range of issues associated with Z and formal methods, with particular reference to practical application. These issues include education, standards, tool support, and interaction with other design paradigms such as consideration of real-time and object-oriented approaches to development. Among the actual topics covered are: the formal specification in Z of Defence Standard 00-56; formal specification of telephone features; specifying and interpreting class hierarchies in Z; and software quality assurance using the SAZ method. Z User Workshop, Cambridge 1994 provides an important overview of current research into industrial applications of Z, and will provide invaluable reading for researchers, postgraduate students and also potential industrial users of Z.
Download or read book Formal Methods for Industrial Critical Systems written by Michael Dierkes and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-09-16 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed conference proceedings of the 18th International Workshop on Formal Methods for Industrial Critical Systems, FMICS 2013, held in Madrid, Spain, in September 2013. The 13 papers presented were carefully selected from 25 submissions and cover topics such as design, specification, code generation and testing based on formal methods, methods, techniques and tools to support automated analysis, certification, debugging, learning, optimization and transformation of complex, distributed, dependable, real-time systems and embedded systems, verification and validation methods, tools for the development of formal design descriptions, case studies and experience reports on industrial applications of formal methods, impact of the adoption of formal methods on the development process and associated costs, application of formal methods in standardization and industrial forums.
Download or read book Industrial Deployment of System Engineering Methods written by Alexander Romanovsky and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-07-09 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A formal method is not the main engine of a development process, its contribution is to improve system dependability by motivating formalisation where useful. This book summarizes the results of the DEPLOY research project on engineering methods for dependable systems through the industrial deployment of formal methods in software development. The applications considered were in automotive, aerospace, railway, and enterprise information systems, and microprocessor design. The project introduced a formal method, Event-B, into several industrial organisations and built on the lessons learned to provide an ecosystem of better tools, documentation and support to help others to select and introduce rigorous systems engineering methods. The contributing authors report on these projects and the lessons learned. For the academic and research partners and the tool vendors, the project identified improvements required in the methods and supporting tools, while the industrial partners learned about the value of formal methods in general. A particular feature of the book is the frank assessment of the managerial and organisational challenges, the weaknesses in some current methods and supporting tools, and the ways in which they can be successfully overcome. The book will be of value to academic researchers, systems and software engineers developing critical systems, industrial managers, policymakers, and regulators.
Download or read book Towards Verified Systems written by J. Bowen and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2013-10-22 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the complexity of embedded computer-controlled systems increases, the present industrial practice for their development gives cause for concern, especially for safety-critical applications where human lives are at stake. The use of software in such systems has increased enormously in the last decade. Formal methods, based on firm mathematical foundations, provide one means to help with reducing the risk of introducing errors during specification and development. There is currently much interest in both academic and industrial circles concerning the issues involved, but the techniques still need further investigation and promulgation to make their widespread use a reality. This book presents results of research into techniques to aid the formal verification of mixed hardware/software systems. Aspects of system specification and verification from requirements down to the underlying hardware are addressed, with particular regard to real-time issues. The work presented is largely based around the Occam programming language and Transputer microprocessor paradigm. The HOL theorem prover, based on higher order logic, has mainly been used in the application of machine-checked proofs. The book describes research work undertaken on the collaborative UK DTI/SERC-funded Information Engineering Dictorate Safemos project. The partners were Inmos Ltd., Cambridge SRI, the Oxford University Computing Laboratory and the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory, who investigated the problems of formally verifying embedded systems. The most important results of the project are presented in the form of a series of interrelated chapters by project members and associated personnel. In addition, overviews of two other ventures with similar objectives are included as appendices. The material in this book is intended for computing science researchers and advanced industrial practitioners interested in the application of formal methods to real-time safety-critical systems at all levels of abstraction from requirements to hardware. In addition, material of a more general nature is presented, which may be of interest to managers in charge of projects applying formal methods, especially for safety-critical-systems, and others who are considering their use.
Download or read book FME 96 Industrial Benefit and Advances in Formal Methods written by Marie-Claude Gaudel and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1996-03-06 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the refereed proceedings of the Third International Symposium of Formal Methods Europe, FME '96, held in Oxford, UK, in March 1996. FME '96 was co-sponsored by IFIP WG 14.3 and devoted to "the application and demonstrated industrial benefit of formal methods, their new horizons and strengthened foundations". The 35 full revised papers included were selected from a total of 103 submissions; also included are three invited papers. The book addresses all relevant aspects of formal methods, from the point of view of the industrial R & D professional as well as from the academic viewpoint, and impressively documents the significant progress in the use of formal methods for the solution of real-world problems.
Download or read book Formal Methods and Hybrid Real Time Systems written by Cliff B. Jones and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-09-04 with total page 551 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Festschrift volume is published to honour both Dines Bjørner and Zhou Chaochen on the occasion of their 70th birthdays. The volume includes 25 refereed papers by leading researchers, current and former colleagues, who congregated at a celebratory symposium held in Macao, China, in the course of the International Colloquium on Theoretical Aspects of Computing, ICTAC 2007. The papers cover a broad spectrum of subjects.
