A significant part of the call processing software for Lucent's new PathStar access server [FSW98] was checked with automated formal verification techniques. The verification...
Leakage of confidential information represents a serious security risk. Despite a number of novel, theoretical advances, it has been unclear if and how quantitative approaches to ...
Abstract. Refinement plays a crucial role in "top-down" styles of verification, such as the refinement calculus, but for probabilistic systems proof of refinement is a pa...
: Property Driven Development is a methodology to check the validity of a distributed application and its conformance to specified requirements. A first prototype supporting this...
Exhaustive model checking search techniques are ineffective for error discovery in large and complex multi-threaded software systems. Distance estimate heuristics guide the concre...