Deriving Safety Cases for the Formal Safety Certification of Automatically Generated Code

Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science

Volumn 238, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 19-26

  Basir, Nurlida ^a   Denney, Ewen ^b   Fischer, Bernd ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Automated code generation; formal code certification; Goal Structuring Notation; Hoare logic; safety case

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED CODE GENERATION; FORMAL CODE CERTIFICATION; GOAL STRUCTURING NOTATION; HOARE LOGIC; SAFETY CASE;

NETWORK COMPONENTS;

FORMAL LOGIC;

EID: 70349087724     PISSN: 15710661     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.entcs.2009.09.003     Document Type: Article

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