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Critical Systems Validation and Verification with CSP and FDR

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Applied Formal Methods — FM-Trends 98 (FM-Trends 1998)

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Formal Systems and DERA have enjoyed a number of fruitful collaborations in recent years, especially in projects exploiting the FDR tool to analyse CSP models of systems. This paper presents an overview of the approach and some of the diverse applications to which it has been applied.

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Goldsmith, M., Zakiuddin, I. (1999). Critical Systems Validation and Verification with CSP and FDR. In: Hutter, D., Stephan, W., Traverso, P., Ullmann, M. (eds) Applied Formal Methods — FM-Trends 98. FM-Trends 1998. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1641. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-48257-1_15

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