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HASE
2008
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Formal Support for Quantitative Analysis of Residual Risks in Safety-Critical Systems
With the increasing complexity in software and electronics in safety-critical systems new challenges to lower the costs and decrease time-to-market, while preserving high assuranc...
Jonas Elmqvist, Simin Nadjm-Tehrani
SCS
2004
13 years 9 months ago
Contract-Based Justification for COTS Component within Safety Critical Applications
Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) software components are being used within complex safety-critical applications. However, to use them with confidence, it is necessary to ensure tha...
Fan Ye, Tim Kelly
HYBRID
2007
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Safety Verification of an Aircraft Landing Protocol: A Refinement Approach
Abstract. In this paper, we propose a new approach for formal verification of hybrid systems. To do so, we present a new refinement proof technique, a weak refinement using step in...
Shinya Umeno, Nancy A. Lynch
CONCUR
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Compositional Control Synthesis for Partially Observable Systems
We present a compositional method for deriving control constraints on a network of interconnected, partially observable and partially controllable plant components. The constraint ...
Wouter Kuijper, Jaco van de Pol
ICMAS
1998
13 years 9 months ago
Emergent Properties of a Market-based Digital Library with Strategic Agents
The University of Michigan Digital Library (UMDL) is an open system that allows third-parties to build and integrate their own profit-seeking agents into the marketplace of inform...
Sunju Park, Edmund H. Durfee, William P. Birmingha...