Use Cases are a wide-spread informal method for specifying the requirements of a technical system in the early development phase. Z is a formal notation which aims to support, bes...
Proof-carrying code (PCC) is a general framework that can, in principle, verify safety properties of arbitrary machine-language programs. Existing PCC systems and typed assembly l...
Abstract. Software security can be ensured by specifying and verifying security properties of software using formal methods with strong theoretical bases. In particular, programs c...
Jean Goubault-Larrecq, Slawomir Lasota, David Nowa...
Complex software systems possess concurrent and reactive behaviors requiring precise specifications prior to development. Lamport's transition axiom method is a formal specif...
Jagadish Suryadevara, Lawrence Chung, R. K. Shyama...
: The widely accepted possible benefits of formal methods on the one hand and their minor use compared to informal or graphical description techniques on the other hand have repeat...