Formal methods in industry

MH ter Beek, R Chapman, R Cleaveland… - Formal Aspects of …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Formal methods encompass a wide choice of techniques and tools for the specification,
development, analysis, and verification of software and hardware systems. Formal methods …

A toolchain for strategy synthesis with spatial properties

D Basile, MH ter Beek, L Bussi, V Ciancia - International Journal on …, 2023 - Springer
We present an application of strategy synthesis to enforce spatial properties. This is
achieved by implementing a toolchain that enables the tools CATLib and VoxLogicA to …

[PDF][PDF] Geometric model checking of continuous space

N Bezhanishvili, V Ciancia, D Gabelaia… - Logical Methods in …, 2022 - lmcs.episciences.org
Topological Spatial Model Checking is a recent paradigm where model checking techniques
are developed for the topological interpretation of Modal Logic. The Spatial Logic of Closure …

Minimisation of spatial models using branching bisimilarity

V Ciancia, JF Groote, D Latella, M Massink… - … Symposium on Formal …, 2023 - Springer
Spatial logic and spatial model checking have great potential for traditional computer
science domains and beyond. Reasoning about space involves two different conditional …

Back-and-forth in space: on logics and bisimilarity in closure spaces

V Ciancia, D Latella, M Massink, EP de Vink - … on the Occasion of His 60th …, 2022 - Springer
We adapt the standard notion of bisimilarity for topological models to closure models and
refine it for quasi-discrete closure models. We also define an additional, weaker notion of …

An experimental toolchain for strategy synthesis with spatial properties

D Basile, MH ter Beek, V Ciancia - International Symposium on …, 2022 - Springer
We investigate the application of strategy synthesis to enforce spatial properties. The
Contract Automata Library (CATLib) performs both composition and strategy synthesis of …

Towards a spatial model checker on GPU

L Bussi, V Ciancia, F Gadducci - International Conference on Formal …, 2021 - Springer
The tool VoxLogicA merges the state-of-the-art library of computational imaging algorithms
ITK with the combination of declarative specification and optimised execution provided by …

On Bisimilarity for Polyhedral Models and SLCS

V Ciancia, D Gabelaia, D Latella, M Massink… - … Conference on Formal …, 2023 - Springer
The notion of bisimilarity plays an important role in concurrency theory. It provides formal
support to the idea of processes having “equivalent behaviour” and is a powerful tool for …

A Hands-On Introduction to Spatial Model Checking Using VoxLogicA: –Invited Contribution

V Ciancia, G Belmonte, D Latella, M Massink - … Symposium on Model …, 2021 - Springer
This paper provides a tutorial-style introduction, and a guide, to the recent advancements in
spatial model checking that have made some relevant results possible. Among these, we …

Weak Simplicial Bisimilarity for Polyhedral Models and SLCS_eta--Extended Version

N Bezhanishvili, V Ciancia, D Gabelaia… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
In the context of spatial logics and spatial model checking for polyhedral models-
mathematical basis for visualisations in continuous space-we propose a weakening of …