In this paper, we argue that KBS validation should not be limited to testing functional properties of the system, such as its input - output behavior, but must also address its dy...
This paper proposes a revised semantic interpretation of UML Statechart Diagrams which ensures, under the specified design rules, that Statecharts may be constructed to have true ...
Bounded Model Checking (BMC) searches for counterexamples to a property with a bounded length k. If no such counterexample is found, k is increased. This process terminates when ...
Evolutionary Algorithms (EAs) are well-known optimization approaches to cope with non-linear, complex problems. These population-based algorithms, however, suffer from a general we...
Shahryar Rahnamayan, Hamid R. Tizhoosh, Magdy M. A...
This paper describes a formal executable semantics for the Verilog hardware description language. The goal of our formalization is to provide a concise and mathematically rigorous...
Patrick O'Neil Meredith, Michael Katelman, Jos&eac...