JAR
2008
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2008
We introduce a specification language, Promela-Lite, which captures the essential features of Promela but which, unlike Promela, has a formally defined semantics. We show how we ca...
JAR
2008
14 years 13 days ago
2008
The spreading of multicast technology enables the development of group communication and so dealing with digital streams becomes more and more common over the Internet. Given the f...
JAR
2008
14 years 13 days ago
2008
Statistical quantities, such as expectation (mean) and variance, play a vital role in the present age probabilistic analysis. In this paper, we present some formalization of expect...
JAR
2008
14 years 13 days ago
2008
We present a simple formulation of Assumption-Commitment reasoning using CSP. In our formulation, an assumption-commitment style property of a process SYS takes the form COM SYS A...
JAR
2008
14 years 13 days ago
2008
Abstract We present an extensible encoding of object-oriented data models into higherorder logic (HOL). Our encoding is supported by a datatype package that leverages the use of th...
JAR
2008
14 years 13 days ago
2008
Hybrid systems are models for complex physical systems and are defined as dynamical systems with interacting discrete transitions and continuous evolutions along differential equat...
JAR
2008
14 years 13 days ago
2008
JAR
2008
14 years 13 days ago
2008
This article presents the formal verification, using the Coq proof assistant, of a memory model for low-level imperative languages such as C and compiler intermediate languages. Be...
JAR
2008
14 years 13 days ago
2008
This article presents detailed implementations of quantifier elimination for both integer and real linear arithmetic for theorem provers. The underlying algorithms are those by Coo...
JAR
2008
14 years 13 days ago
2008
We analyze three proof strategies commonly used in deductive verification of deterministic sequential programs formalized with operational semantics. The strategies are: (i) stepw...