Formal Methods for Industrial Critical Systems: A Survey of Applications

By Tiziana Margaria and Stefania Gnesi

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0470876182
• ISBN13: 9780470876183
• Release Date: December 2012
• Publisher: Wiley-IEEE Computer Society PR
• Length: 292 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.1"