Condition Data Flow Diagrams (CDFDs) are a formalized notation resulting from the integration of Yourdon Data Flow Diagrams, Petri Nets, and pre-post notation. They are used in th...
This paper describes a specialized interface to PVS called TAME (Timed Automata Modeling Environment) which provides automated support for proving properties of I/O automata. A maj...
Myla Archer, Constance L. Heitmeyer, Elvinia Ricco...
for reasoning about abstract models of protocols. The work on informal methods attempts to discern common patterns in the extensive record of flawed protocols, and to formulate po...
From the perspective of the linguist, the theory of formal languages serves as an abstract model to address issues such as complexity, learnability, information content, etc. which...
We study the relation between Nominal Logic and the Theory of Contexts, two approaches for specifying and reasoning about datatypes with binders. We consider a natural-deduction s...