The paper discusses a proposal of a formal description of ARD+ a conceptual design and hierarchical refinement method for knowledge-based systems. Formalization of method syntax i...
With the increasing emphasis on dependability in complex, distributed systems, it is essential that system development can be done gradually and at different levels of detail. In ...
Einar Broch Johnsen, Olaf Owe, Ellen Munthe-Kaas, ...
Successive, formal refinement is a new approach for specification of embedded systems using a general-purpose programming language. Systems are formally modeled as Abstractable Sy...
James Shin Young, Josh MacDonald, Michael Shilman,...
We consider the problem of ranking refinement, i.e., to improve the accuracy of an existing ranking function with a small set of labeled instances. We are, particularly, intereste...
Abstract. This paper develops a local reasoning method to check lineartime temporal properties of concurrent programs. In practice, it is often infeasible to model check over the p...