Formal specification of a cardiac pacing system

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

Volumn 5850 LNCS, Issue , 2009, Pages 692-707

  Gomes, Artur Oliveira ^a   Oliveira, Marcel Vinícius Medeiros ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO NORTE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Formal modelling; Industrial applications; Pacemaker; Z

Indexed keywords

CARDIAC PACEMAKERS; CARDIAC PACING SYSTEMS; FORMAL DEVELOPMENT; FORMAL MODEL; FORMAL MODELLING; FORMAL SPECIFICATION; GRAND CHALLENGE PROJECT; IN-BUILDINGS; NEW THEORY; RESEARCH PROGRAMS; Z NOTATION;

INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS; PACEMAKERS; SPECIFICATIONS;

FORMAL METHODS;

EID: 70649096035     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-05089-3_44     Document Type: Conference Paper

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