The Importance of Being Formal

Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science

Volumn 238, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 57-70

  Frese, Udo ^a   Hausmann, Daniel ^a   Lüth, Christoph ^a   Täubig, Holger ^a   Walter, Dennis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

formal methods; Isabelle; robotics; safety; software certification

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC PROOFS; DEVELOPMENT PROCESS; DOMAIN KNOWLEDGE; FORMALISATION; HIGHER ORDER LOGIC; ISABELLE; REVIEW PROCESS; SAFETY; SAFETY CASE; SAFETY COMPONENT; SAFETY PROPERTY; SAFETY REQUIREMENTS; SERVICE ROBOTS; SOFTWARE CERTIFICATION; THEOREM PROVERS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; ROBOTICS; ROBOTS; SPECIFICATIONS;

FORMAL METHODS;

EID: 70349214879     PISSN: 15710661     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.entcs.2009.09.006     Document Type: Article

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