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2006
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A Story About Formal Methods Adoption by a Railway Signaling Manufacturer
Stefano Bacherini, Alessandro Fantechi, Matteo Tem...
FM
2006
Springer
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Changing Programs Correctly: Refactoring with Specifications
Refactorings change the internal structure of code without changing its external behavior. For non-trivial refactorings, the preservation of external behavior depends on semantic p...
Fabian Bannwart, Peter Müller
FM
2006
Springer
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Towards Modularized Verification of Distributed Time-Triggered Systems
Abstract. The correctness of a system according to a given specification is essential, especially for safety-critical applications. One such typical application domain is the autom...
Jewgenij Botaschanjan, Alexander Gruler, Alexander...
FM
2006
Springer
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Enforcer - Efficient Failure Injection
Non-determinism of the thread schedule is a well-known problem in concurrent programming. However, other sources of non-determinism exist which cannot be controlled by an applicati...
Cyrille Artho, Armin Biere, Shinichi Honiden
FM
2006
Springer
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A Formal Template Language Enabling Metaproof
Design patterns are usually described in terms of instances. Templates describe sentences of some language with a particular form, generate sentences upon instantiation, and can be...
Nuno Amálio, Susan Stepney, Fiona Polack
FM
2006
Springer
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Formal Verification of a C Compiler Front-End
This paper presents the formal verification of a compiler front-end that translates a subset of the C language into the Cminor intermediate language. The semantics of the source an...
Sandrine Blazy, Zaynah Dargaye, Xavier Leroy
FM
2006
Springer
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Feature Specification and Static Analysis for Interaction Resolution
While designing a service-oriented system, deciding whether a service interaction is desired or harmful is a subjective choice which depends on the requirements expressed by the us...
Marc Aiguier, Karim Berkani, Pascale Le Gall
FM
2006
Springer
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Properties of Behavioural Model Merging
Constructing comprehensive operational models of intended system behaviour is a complex and costly task. Consequently, practitioners adopt techniques that support partial behaviour...
Greg Brunet, Marsha Chechik, Sebastián Uchi...
FORMATS
2004
Springer
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A Unified Fault-Tolerance Protocol
Davies and Wakerly show that Byzantine fault tolerance can be achieved by a cascade of broadcasts and middle value select functions. We present an extension of the Davies and Waker...
Paul S. Miner, Alfons Geser, Lee Pike, Jeffrey Mad...
FORMATS
2004
Springer
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Decomposing Verification of Timed I/O Automata
This paper presents assume-guarantee style substitutivity results for the recently published timed I/O automaton modeling framework. These results are useful for decomposing verifi...
Dilsun Kirli Kaynar, Nancy A. Lynch