Formal methods use mathematical models for analysis and verification at any part of the
program life-cycle. We describe the state of the art in the industrial use of formal methods …

To deal with the frequent, foreseeable and variable disconnections that occur in a mobile
environment, we introduce a flexible, two-level consistency model. Semantically related or …

After a number of success stories in safety‐critical domains, we are starting to witness
applications of formal methods in contemporary systems and software engineering …

FreeRTOS is an open-source real-time microkernel that has a wide community of users. We
present the formal specification of the behaviour of the task part of FreeRTOS that deals with …

This paper reports on the Xenon project's use of formal methods. Xenon is a higher-
assurance secure hypervisor based on re-engineering the Xen open-source hypervisor. The …

Alloy is a formal specification language, which despite featuring a simple syntax and
relational semantics, is very expressive and supports efficient automated specification …

We present a research roadmap for the second pilot project in the Verified Software Grand
Challenge on formally verified POSIX file stores. The work is inspired by the requirements for …

Proof scores are documents of comprehensible plans to prove theorems. The proof score
approach to systems analysis is a method in which proof scores are used to verify that …

EMV (Europay, MasterCard, Visa), commonly termed “Chip & PIN”, is becoming the
dominant card based payment technology globally. The EMV Chip & PIN transaction …

The up-front choice of security policy and formalism used to model it is critical to the success
of projects that seek to enforce information-flow security. This paper reports on the Xenon …