Book description
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.
STEFANIA GNESI is Director of Research and head of the Formal
Methods and Tools Laboratory at ISTI-CNR (Istituto di Scienza e
Tecnologie dell'Informazione-Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche) in
Pisa, Italy. She was previously a lecturer in methods and tools for
the specification and analysis of software systems at the University
of Florence.
TIZIANA MARGARIA is Full Professor in the Faculty of
Mathematics and Natural Sciences of the University of Potsdam, where
she holds the Chair of Service and Software Engineering at the
Institute of Informatics. She has held positions at universities in
Göttingen, Dortmund, and Passau, Germany, as well as in Sweden and
Italy.
