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The complexity of software in embedded systems has increased significantly over the last years so that software verification now plays an important role in ensuring the overall product quality. In this context, SAT-based bounded model…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2009-11-20 Lucas Cordeiro , Bernd Fischer , Joao Marques-Silva

This work presents a model-based development methodology for verified software systems as well as a tool support for it: an applied AutoFocus tool chain and its basic principles emphasizing the verification of the system under development…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2012-07-11 Maria Spichkova , Florian Hölzl , David Trachtenherz

Reference models convey best practices and standards. The reference frameworks necessitate conformance checks to ensure adherence to established guidelines and principles, which is crucial for maintaining quality and consistency in various…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Bernhard Rumpe , Max Stachon , Sebastian Stüber , Valdes Voufo

During the development and verification of complex airborne systems, a variety of languages and development environments are used for different levels of the system hierarchy. As a result, there may be manual steps to translate requirements…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2016-04-26 Jing Liu , John D. Backes , Darren Cofer , Andrew Gacek

Software correctness is ensured mathematically through formal verification, which involves the resources of generating formal requirement specifications and having an implementation that must be verified. Tools such as model-checkers and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Arshad Beg , Diarmuid O'Donoghue , Rosemary Monahan

Security verification of communication protocols in industrial and safety-critical systems is challenging because implementations are often proprietary, accessible only as black boxes, and too complex for manual modeling. As a result,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Stefan Marksteiner , Mikael Sjödin , Marjan Sirjani

The software development process for embedded systems is getting faster and faster, which generally incurs an increase in the associated complexity. As a consequence, consumer electronics companies usually invest a lot of resources in fast…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-09-08 Felipe R. M. Sousa , Lucas C. Cordeiro , Eddie B. de Lima Filho

Model checkers use automated state exploration in order to prove various properties such as reachability, non-reachability, and bisimulation over state transition systems. While model checkers have proved valuable for locating errors in…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-08-03 Quentin Heath , Dale Miller

Automatic software verification tools help to find hard-to-detect faults in programs checked against specified requirements non-interactively. Besides, they can prove program correctness formally under certain assumptions. These…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-09-29 Ilja Zakharov , Evgeny Novikov , Ilya Shchepetkov

Writing documentation about software internals is rarely considered a rewarding activity. It is highly time-consuming and the resulting documentation is fragile when the software is continuously evolving in a multi-developer setting.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2013-11-13 Tobias Kuhn , Alexandre Bergel

We propose a verified approach to the formal verification of timed properties using model-checking techniques. We focus on properties expressed using real-time specification patterns, which can be viewed as a subset of timed temporal logics…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-02-01 Nouha Abid , Silvano Dal Zilio , Didier Le Botlan

Formal verification techniques aim at formally proving the correctness of a computer program with respect to a formal specification, but the expertise and effort required for applying formal specification and verification techniques and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-01-10 João Pascoal Faria , Rui Abreu

For all the successes in verifying low-level, efficient, security-critical code, little has been said or studied about the structure, architecture and engineering of such large-scale proof developments. We present the design, implementation…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2023-07-10 Son Ho , Aymeric Fromherz , Jonathan Protzenko

In this paper we consider the problem of certified static checking of module-like constructs of programming languages. We argue that there are algorithms and properties related to modules that can be defined and proven in an abstract way.…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2017-06-20 Julia Belyakova

OpenACC is a high-level directive-based parallel programming model that can manage the sophistication of heterogeneity in architectures and abstract it from the users. The portability of the model across CPUs and accelerators has gained the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-08-30 A. M. Jarmusch , A. Liu , C. Munley , D. Horta , V. Ravichandran , J. Denny , S. Chandrasekaran

Formal verification offers a path to provably correct software, but writing verified code remains expensive enough that the technique is rarely used in production. Recent large language models can accelerate this work, and recent benchmarks…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Leo Yao

Good tools can bring mechanical verification to programs written in mainstream functional languages. We use hs-to-coq to translate significant portions of Haskell's containers library into Coq, and verify it against specifications that we…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2018-03-21 Joachim Breitner , Antal Spector-Zabusky , Yao Li , Christine Rizkallah , John Wiegley , Stephanie Weirich

Software testing and verification are critical for ensuring the reliability and security of modern software systems. Traditionally, formal verification techniques, such as model checking and theorem proving, have provided rigorous…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Norbert Tihanyi , Tamas Bisztray , Mohamed Amine Ferrag , Bilel Cherif , Richard A. Dubniczky , Ridhi Jain , Lucas C. Cordeiro

Model checking is an established technique to formally verify automation systems which are required to be trusted. However, for sufficiently complex systems model checking becomes computationally infeasible. On the other hand, testing,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-07-30 Igor Buzhinsky , Valeriy Vyatkin

Artifact-centric business process models have gained increasing momentum recently due to their ability to combine structural (i.e., data related) with dynamical (i.e., process related) aspects. In particular, two main lines of research have…

Databases · Computer Science 2014-08-27 Diego Calvanese , Marco Montali , Montserrat Estanol , Ernest Teniente