Lessons learned from a successful implementation of formal methods in an industrial project

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

Volumn 2805, Issue , 2003, Pages 133-153

  Wassyng, Alan ^a   Lawford, Mark ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Experience paper; Industrial application; Inspection; Safety critical software; Specification; Verification

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; APPLICATION PROGRAMS; ELECTRIC SUBSTATIONS; INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS; INSPECTION; SPECIFICATIONS; VERIFICATION;

ACADEMIC COMMUNITY; DARLINGTON; IN-DEPTH STUDY; INDUSTRIAL PROJECTS; NUCLEAR GENERATING STATIONS; ONTARIO , CANADA; SAFETY CRITICAL SOFTWARE; SHUTDOWN SYSTEMS;

FORMAL METHODS;

EID: 35248842639     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-45236-2_9     Document Type: Article

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