Abstract. The UML-based Specification Environment (USE) tool supports the syntactic analysis, type checking, consistency checking, and dynamic validation of invariants and pre-/pos...
Wuliang Sun, Eunjee Song, Paul C. Grabow, Devon M....
Abstract. Model checking is an automated approach to the formal verification of hardware and software. To allow model checking tools to be used by the hardware or software designer...
Nina Amla, E. Allen Emerson, Robert P. Kurshan, Ke...
Software has been under scrutiny by the verification community from various angles in the recent past. There are two major algorithmic approaches to ensure the correctness of and...
Ansgar Fehnker, Ralf Huuck, Patrick Jayet, Michel ...
Ensuring correctness of software by formal methods is a very relevant and widely studied problem. Automatic verification of software using model checkers from the state space exp...
Ideally in the deployment phase, components should be composable, and their composition checked. Current component models fall short of this ideal. Most models do not allow composi...