Computer system reliability is conventionally modeled and analyzed using techniques such as fault tree analysis (FTA) and reliability block diagrams (RBD), which provide static rep...
Ryan Robidoux, Haiping Xu, Liudong Xing, MengChu Z...
Abstract--Safety analysis in Systems Engineering (SE) processes, as usually implemented, rarely relies on formal methods such as model checking since such techniques, however power...
Being the de-facto standard (object-oriented-OO) method(-logy) for software-intensive systems development, UML with its different diagrams and supporting tools represent nowadays t...
SOFL is a formal language and method for system specification and design. As a language it is an integration of Petri nets, Data Flow Diagrams, and VDM-SL. As a method it is a com...
We propose a family of models of coordination of distributed object systems representing different views, with refinement relations between the different views. We start with dist...