FME '96: Industrial Benefit and Advances in Formal Methods

How did software get so reliable without proof?.- A case study on the formal development of a reactor safety system.- Test automation for safety-critical systems: Industrial application and future developments.- Quantitative analysis of an application of formal methods.- Applying the B technologies to CICS.- Refining action systems within B-Tool.- Integrating action systems and Z in a medical system specification.- Formalizing Anaesthesia: A case study in formal specification.- A new system engineering methodology coupling formal specification and performance evaluation.- Formalizing new navigation requirements for NASA's Space Shuttle.- Combining VDM-SL specifications with C++ code.- Data reification without explicit abstraction functions.- Formal and informal specifications of a secure system component: Final results in a comparative study.- Visual verification of safety and liveness.- Graphical development of consistent system specifications.- Deduction in the Verification Support Environment (VSE).- Consistency and refinement for partial specification in Z.- Combining statecharts and Z for the design of safety-critical control systems.- Integrating real-time scheduling theory and program refinement.- Using a logical and categorical approach for the validation of fault-tolerant systems.- Local nondeterminism in asynchronously communicating processes.- Identification of and solutions to shortcomings of LCL, a Larch/C interface specification language.- Formal specification and verification of the pGVT algorithm.- Automatic verification of a hydroelectric power plant.- Experiences in embedded scheduling.- Model checking in practice: An analysis of the ACCESS.bus™ protocol using SPIN.- The incremental development of correct specifications for distributed systems.- A theory of distributing train rescheduling.- An improved translation of SA/RT specification model to high-level timed Petri nets.- From testing theory to test driver implementation.- Program slicing using weakest preconditions.- A formal approach to architectural design patterns.- Modular completeness: Integrating the reuse of specified software in top-down program development.- A strategic approach to transformational design.- Correct and user-friendly implementations of transformation systems.- An example of use of formal methods to debug an embedded software.- Experiments in theorem proving and model checking for protocol verification.- Procedure-level verification of real-time concurrent systems.