Formal verification provides a rigorous and systematic approach to ensure the correctness
and reliability of software systems. Yet, constructing specifications for the full proof relies on …

The Independent Configurable Architecture for Reliable Operations of Unmanned Systems
(ICAROUS) is a software architecture incorporating a set of algorithms to enable …

FRET is a tool for writing, understanding, formalizing and analyzing requirements. Users
write requirements in an intuitive, restricted natural language, called FRETISH, with precise …

The use of structured natural languages to capture requirements provides a reasonable
trade-off between ambiguous natural language and unintuitive formal notations. There are …

The complexity and flexibility of autonomous robotic systems necessitates a range of distinct
verification tools. This presents new challenges not only for design verification but also for …

Capturing and analyzing requirements of Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) can be
challenging, since CPS models typically involve time-varying and real-valued variables …

Context Ensuring safety for any sophisticated system is getting more complex due to the
rising number of features and functionalities. This calls for formal methods to entrust …

Requirements are textual representations of the desired software capabilities. Many
templates have been used to standardize the structure of requirement statements such as …

Formal verification methods like model checking can provide mathematical proofs of design
correctness, so their use is justified in applications where safety or reliability requirements …

Abstract Context: Conditional statements like “If A and B then C” are core elements for
describing software requirements. However, there are many ways to express such …