Security-critical systems are an important application area for formal methods. However, such systems often contain cryptographic subsystems. The natural definitions of these subsy...
alyses are concerned with precise abstractions of the heap to capture detailed structural properties. To do so, they need to build and decompose summaries of disjoint memory regio...
The field of requirements engineering emerges out of tradition of research and engineering practice that stresses rtance of generalizations and abstractions. abstraction is essent...
We explain the design of the interpretation-based static analyzer Astr´ee and its use to prove the absence of run-time errors in safety-critical codes. Categories and Subject Des...
Abstract. In using the logic of equality with unininterpreted functions to verify hardware systems, specific characteristics of the formula describing the correctness condition ca...
Randal E. Bryant, Steven M. German, Miroslav N. Ve...