A story about formal methods adoption by a railway signaling manufacturer

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 4085 LNCS, Issue , 2006, Pages 179-189

  Bacherini, Stefano ^b   Fantechi, Alessandro ^a   Tempestini, Matteo ^b   Zingoni, Niccolò ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b General Electric Transportation Systems   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; LAWS AND LEGISLATION; PUBLIC POLICY; RAILROAD SIGNAL SYSTEMS; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

FORMAL METHODS; RAILWAY SIGNALING MANUFACTURERS; SIGNALING MANUFACTURER;

FORMAL LOGIC;

EID: 33749422040     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/11813040_13     Document Type: Conference Paper

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