Formal Methods for Industrial Critical Systems: A Survey of Applications
Formal Methods for Industrial Critical Systems: A Survey of Applications by Stefania Gnesi and Tiziana Margaria
English | 2012 | ISBN: 0470876182 | 292 pages | PDF | 7,1 MB
English | 2012 | ISBN: 0470876182 | 292 pages | PDF | 7,1 MB
Today, formal methods are widely recognized as an essential step in the design process of industrial safety-critical systems. In its more general definition, the term formal methods encompasses all notations having a precise mathematical semantics, together with their associated analysis methods, that allow description and reasoning about the behavior of a system in a formal manner.
Growing out of more than a decade of award-winning collaborative work within the European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics, Formal Methods for Industrial Critical Systems: A Survey of Applications presents a number of mainstream formal methods currently used for designing industrial critical systems, with a focus on model checking. The purpose of the book is threefold: to reduce the effort required to learn formal methods, which has been a major drawback for their industrial dissemination; to help designers to adopt the formal methods which are most appropriate for their systems; and to offer a panel of state-of-the-art techniques and tools for analyzing critical systems.