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Safety-Critical Java (SCJ) is a restriction of the Real-Time Specification for Java to support the development and certification of safety-critical applications. It is the result of an international effort from industry and academia. Here we present the first formalisation of the SCJ execution model, covering missions and event handlers. Our formal language is part of the Circus family; at the core, we have Z, CSP, and Morgan’s calculus, but we also use object-oriented and timed constructs from the OhCircus and CircusTime variants. Our work is a first step in the development of refinement-based reasoning techniques for SCJ.
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Zeyda, F., Cavalcanti, A., Wellings, A. (2011). The Safety-Critical Java Mission Model: A Formal Account. In: Qin, S., Qiu, Z. (eds) Formal Methods and Software Engineering. ICFEM 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6991. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-24559-6_6
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